Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> writes: >> > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA >> > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in the Places >> > column of PCManfm, but when I click on it I get an error >> > "Authentication is required". [...] > Thanks; I should have asked: > > How do I get it to automount (without asking for authentification) ?
I think udisks treats drives attached via eSATA as "system" devices for which the default policykit rules only allow mounting with authentication. These should show up as "HintSystem: true" in the output of "udisksctl dump". You could try marking them as UDISKS_SYSTEM=0 in a udev rule. See [1] for how to do so. Ansgar [1] <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mark_internal_SATA_ports_as_eSATA>