Accessing other partitions without root password

rng · 01-20-2014, 02:35 AM

I am using Debian stable with KDE and it is otherwise working well. When I try to access another partition in file manager, it asks for root password. Then the partition is mounted and it works well. Is there any way I can have the file manager access other partitions without asking for root password? My /etc/fstab file is as follows:

Code:

$ rncat /etc/fstab 
/dev/sda8     /       ext4    errors=remount-ro     0      1
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

I do not wish to change the fstab file. Is it possible to access other partitions (with proper access) without asking for root password and without changing the fstab file?

gengisdave · 01-20-2014, 02:44 AM

i use udisks, it mounts almost all

rng · 01-20-2014, 05:58 AM

I see that udisks are already installed on my system. What are the steps for using it (or point me to an appropriate link)? I tried to check on following and other pages on the net but could not figure it out clearly:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Udisks

gengisdave · 01-20-2014, 06:11 AM

I use kde, in dolphin (file manager) i have device list i can mount on the fly with a click

in a terminal, "udisks --mount /dev/sda1" or whatever device you want

"lsblk" show you a quick list of mounted devices/partitions

rng · 01-20-2014, 06:17 AM

I am also using kde with dolphin file manager. But when I click on a partition in dolphin, it asks for the root password. Can I not mount it with mouse rather than giving a command in the terminal?

gengisdave · 01-20-2014, 06:28 AM

look for "udisksctl" command (udisks v2), you can mount with "udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1"

rng · 01-20-2014, 07:33 AM

I have udisks (version 1) installed and there is no udisksctl command. The KDE is ver 4.8.4 and apparently it does not support udisks2. Debian-stable repository also does not have udisks2.

rng · 01-23-2014, 09:39 PM

How is it that in some linux distributions, the partitions are mounted in the file-manager without any password and in other distributions they need password (either user or root) to be accessible? Where do these settings lie?