Fedora 12 XFCE mount permissions

Question

I installed Fedora 12 with XFCE.

When I run Gigolo to mount Windows partitions, I get an "Authentication is required" message.

In Fedora 11 XFCE, there was a tool that changed the system permission to allow any user to mount any partition, but I can't find it in Fedora 12.

How can I fix this problem and set all permissions needed?

Answer 1

Unfortunately the PolicyKit configuration tool has been removed. The new method for configuring PolicyKit is described in the pklocalauthority(8) man page.

EDIT:

As an example, here's the contents of my /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d/vmm.pkla file:

[Virtual Machine Manager]
Identity=unix-user:ignacio
Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage
ResultActive=yes

This allows the "unix" user ignacio (this would be my login) to always be allowed the org.libvirt.unix.manage permissions (this can be gleaned from the PolicyKit dialog box) whenever they have the active console. This allows me to run Virtual Machine Manager without having to type in root's password.

Answer 2

PySDM can do that