If I plug in an external USB drive or memory stick I’m prompted to enter the root password to mount the device. Why? How can I change so that I don’t have to use root to mount USB devices?
Using openSUSE 11.2 with KDE as default desktop.
Thanks
If I plug in an external USB drive or memory stick I’m prompted to enter the root password to mount the device. Why? How can I change so that I don’t have to use root to mount USB devices?
Using openSUSE 11.2 with KDE as default desktop.
Thanks
Does anyone not have any thoughts on this? I should make a slight correction; the devices mount, but in order to access them I have to enter the root password. After entering the root password I can access the devices as my normal user. I can log out of X and log out of the machine totally, then come back in and access the device without again entering root password.
As a developer I am trying to understand the logic:
A normal user has some USB device they want to attach. The device is recognized and appears to be mounted (from and X perspective, did not do a df to see if it was actually mounted), then to access the drive/stick, the normal user has to enter the root password to access that normal user’s device. I don’t see the logic in that.
Granted that Linux by default allows mount privileges only to root, but that rule is sort of left over from the days before USB devices were around and popular. In 2009 with so many advances in the various desktop managers and Linux becoming used as a desktop machine more and more, it doesn’t make sense.
Hi linuxdave,
I, too, was being bugged by this. If you haven’t already found a solution, this is what proved to be a solution for me.
YAST →
“Security & Users” →
“Local Security” →
“Predifined Security Configuration.”
Choose “Networked Workstation” radio button. Then “OK”
Now plugging in USB drives no longer require root password.
Cheers,
Brian.
Cool! Thanks Brian I’ll give that a try.