[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

Robert,

I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the
same for all 3.

Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local
devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of
cases remote desktops will have emulated devices that access the users
local device for that functionality.

In all cases can you access the devices when logged in locally on the machine?

If they work when logged in locally it's due to PolicyKit and the
xfce-polkit package and it's a security feature, not a bug.

Peter

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:04 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
> Cubieboard2
>
> On my Xfce desktop (well VNCed into it) as me. I inserted a usb
> device. It shows up as an icon in tghe workspace. I go to mount it and
> get "Not authorized to perform operation".
>
> Nothing interesting on the console:
>
> [ 2525.137522] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using
> ehci-platform
> [ 2525.283687] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0951,
> idProduct=1603, bcdDevice= 2.00
> [ 2525.292069] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=3
> [ 2525.299380] usb 1-1: Product: DataTraveler 2.00000025168
> [ 2525.304990] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Kingston
> [ 2525.309342] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 0000025168
> [ 2525.645759] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
> [ 2525.658504] scsi host1: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
> [ 2525.663628] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> [ 2525.737957] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
> [ 2526.731250] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0
> 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> [ 2526.752509] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> [ 2526.752591] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1952256 512-byte logical blocks: (1000
> MB/953 MiB)
> [ 2526.776457] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 2526.797671] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
> [ 2526.803174] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 2526.835704] sdb:
> [ 2526.844064] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
>
> what do I have to do so a user can mount a USB device?
>
> thanks
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