[sles-beta] SLES 11 SP3 Beta4 with KDE

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 10, Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:

> Hi Fabian,
>
> I just reconfigured the system as you mentioned, but it/this did not change 
> the behavior (relogin done, but no reboot).
>
> As of your email, I suppose this is meant to be a default feature of SLES11?

Yes, of course you don't want that anybody can use/mount whatever he likes
by default. You need to look at the polkit rules, I think it is
"org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"

  Thorsten

>
> Regards
> Klaus
>
> Am 10.04.2013 14:55, schrieb Fabian Herschel:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I guess this is a security setting.
>>
>> Check
>> yast security
>> -> predefined security configuration
>> -> select networked workstation
>>
>> (info from the opensuse.org forum - I did not double check it, maybe it
>> also works for you)
>>
>> Regards
>> Fabian
>>
>> On 04/10/2013 01:43 PM, Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just did an Update of a Beta3 system and a fresh install of a Beta4
>>> with KDE. All of the stuff works fine :) but I got aware of an
>>> annoying issue which I want to discuss. For every storage media
>>> (CD,DVD,USB stick) I need to provide the root password for accessing
>>> any device. Is this behavior works as defined this way? Is this
>>> intended for security reasons?
>>>
>>> For me, I can not and also do not want to give every user the root
>>> password in order to read/write data from/to a removal media. How do I
>>> reconfigure the system to give regular users the ability to mount and
>>> read/write local removal storage media? Are there any side effects to
>>> be taken care of after the reconfiguration?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance
>>> Best Regards
>>> Klaus
>>
>>
>
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