I am able to trivially and reliably reproduce this issue on a Dell Inspiron 1420n laptop. The 'eject' command line tool works fine, but 'Eject' in nautilus prompts for the administrator password, with the message indicated in the description.
** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Authentication always required to unmount media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417964 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs