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

Peter,

I will test this.

I have a ClearOS6 server with Gnome that I have accessed for years via
VNC and have accessed USB drives all the time.  But that is ClearOS and
their setup, so I may have wrong expectations.  So let's see...

Oh, wait.  I log in as root over VNC to the ClearOS box and that may be way.

Bob

On 9/13/18 3:19 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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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