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

> >> 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?
> > It worked for me when testing the Xfce image on the Banana Pi.
>
> Do you locally, not remotely?
>
> Also I have to get Xfce running locally. I thought I could just issue
> startx or startxfce4 from the command line, but that failed. Any suggestion?

The way to do this is to enable lightdm and the graphical target in systemd

> Alternatively, how do I change back from multi-user target. I suppose I
> can google that. But can it be done temporarily?
> >
> >> 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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