How to disable USB security?

[pfeigl]

Here is the directory listing the commands produced:

amo/ Maple11/ epsonR340Vista64Drivers.exe*
Cindy\ Lauper\ -\ I\ Drove\ All\ Night.mp3* Moebius6/ hplip-2.8.4.run*
Form1.Designer.cs* Rover/ lgs501.exe*
Form1.cs* VisualStudio2008TrainingKit.exe* netstumblerinstaller_0_4_0.exe*
Form1.resx* WMPInfo.xml* pink\ floyd\ for\ peter/
InstallShield\ Premier\ &\ Express\ Edition/ csharp\ language\ specification.doc* vs2008/
KugelBlitz/ epsonEasyPrintUtilityVista.exe*
root@SlackBox:~#


I still have the same problem in the GUI though. No permission.

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

Hope this is more helpful...

Peter

[devils casper]

Add root and/or regular user(s) in plugdev group.

[pfeigl]

Forgive me for asking what is obvious to you but how do I go about the procedure. I have never even heard of the "plugdev group".

Peter

[pfeigl]

It does it with all removeable media, like CDs and DVDs.

Peter

[Jonathan183]

Forgive me for asking what is obvious to you but how do I go about the procedure. I have never even heard of the "plugdev group".

You should be able to check which groups exist using

groups

then assuming you have a group plugdev you should be able to use

gpasswd -a user_name_to_add plugdev

[pfeigl]

There is no "plugdev" group.

Peter

[Freston]

Weird
I'm installing Slackware 12 on a box right now and I have the exact same problem. I couldn't remember anything like it from the past. But I'll work on a solution

[Freston]

Solved:

You need an entry in fstab. HAL refuses to automount anything it is not used to or told about in advance. There will probably be a HAL setting to turn this off as other distro's are less stringent. Anyway, the way to solve this is such:


Fire up your favorite editor. Open a file known as /etc/fstab
This is the place where is defined who may mount what and where.

Add this line to the bottom of the file:

/dev/sdf1       /mnt/hd         auto    noauto,user 0 0

Where /dev/sdf1 is the device you want to mount. This may vary.
And /mnt/hd is the arbitrary place where you want the device mounted. As long as the directory exists you can mout your device there. If you prefer /mnt/usbstick, just mkdir /mnt/usbstick and point fstab towards that.

[pfeigl]

Thanks for the solution. I will try it tonight. I'm studying for a math exam right now....

Peter

[pfeigl]

I tried your suggestion and some variations with no luck. I can read the CDROM but not the HDD or the USB. And how do I create a plugdev group? I don't have one:

root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel floppy

Peter