On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount > a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to > mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount > removable media automatically. > > This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a > bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find > anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but > the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is > different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8 > came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60 > but there was no clean answer.
The root cause is indeed consolekit. Have a try with this: In /etc/pam.d/common-session insert the line session optional pam_loginuid.co just before session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11 Log out and log in again. Or reboot. This works on my machines (and should solve your restart/shut down problem also) but there is a plan B if needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111012112027.GL23580@desktop
