2016-04-16 14:52 GMT-03:00 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hi, All. > > > > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > > one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in > > order to mount a flash drive, for instance. > > > > Am I missing something? Found some posts on the net, but none has > > given enough light on the subject. > > > > Thank you, > > Francisco > > > I just plugged a couple sticks into mine. It didn't even recognize one > and the other gave me a permission error. It says I am not authorized > to mount the device. So, same problem as you. As someone else posted, > I suspect this is a problem with a group setting. The only new group I > have listed is sddm which is the display manager. Surely that wouldn't > have anything to do with this. I might add, my camera works. I have > uploaded some pics just yesterday. Could this be device specific? > Also, my phone is recognized as well. It seems only USB sticks are > affected here. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > On KDE 4, it was ok, it mounted removable media in /run/[username]/[medialabel] , as the users were already in "plugdev" group and, just in case, the "disk" group as well - and they are there up to now.
Talking about "plugdev" could it be that removing parts of KDE4 in order to replace them with parts of KDE5 removed any udev rules? Going to look into this. Thanks! Francisco
