Configure udisks permission
On my Debian Stretch, my USB drive is auto-mounted on login, AFAICT. It is placed under /media/currentuser/DRIVENAME. I suppose udisks takes care of this (but I could be wrong). No entry in fstab relate to that disk.
I would like other users to have (read and write) access to the drive, and (relatedly) I would like to change its default mount point (which does not make sense if the drive is to be shared accross several users).
I suppose it is possible to do it by adding an entry for that drive in fstab, as often advised. But I would like to know if it is possible to rather configure udisks? I have read that polkit can be used for this, and I suspect it will offer more options and be “more modern” than the fstab way. But I have been unable to find information about how to do this. (For example this answer points to examples which suggest to add polkit rules in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ folder, but this does not exist on my system, which lets me suppose that this advice is somewhat outdated or not applicable to me.)
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On my Debian Stretch, my USB drive is auto-mounted on login, AFAICT. It is placed under /media/currentuser/DRIVENAME. I suppose udisks takes care of this (but I could be wrong). No entry in fstab relate to that disk.
I would like other users to have (read and write) access to the drive, and (relatedly) I would like to change its default mount point (which does not make sense if the drive is to be shared accross several users).
I suppose it is possible to do it by adding an entry for that drive in fstab, as often advised. But I would like to know if it is possible to rather configure udisks? I have read that polkit can be used for this, and I suspect it will offer more options and be “more modern” than the fstab way. But I have been unable to find information about how to do this. (For example this answer points to examples which suggest to add polkit rules in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ folder, but this does not exist on my system, which lets me suppose that this advice is somewhat outdated or not applicable to me.)
permissions udisks
asked Oct 4 '18 at 9:01
Olivier CaillouxOlivier Cailloux
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On my Debian Stretch, my USB drive is auto-mounted on login, AFAICT. It is placed under /media/currentuser/DRIVENAME. I suppose udisks takes care of this (but I could be wrong). No entry in fstab relate to that disk.
I would like other users to have (read and write) access to the drive, and (relatedly) I would like to change its default mount point (which does not make sense if the drive is to be shared accross several users).
I suppose it is possible to do it by adding an entry for that drive in fstab, as often advised. But I would like to know if it is possible to rather configure udisks? I have read that polkit can be used for this, and I suspect it will offer more options and be “more modern” than the fstab way. But I have been unable to find information about how to do this. (For example this answer points to examples which suggest to add polkit rules in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ folder, but this does not exist on my system, which lets me suppose that this advice is somewhat outdated or not applicable to me.)
permissions udisks
asked Oct 4 '18 at 9:01
Olivier CaillouxOlivier Cailloux
1486
On my Debian Stretch, my USB drive is auto-mounted on login, AFAICT. It is placed under /media/currentuser/DRIVENAME. I suppose udisks takes care of this (but I could be wrong). No entry in fstab relate to that disk.
I would like other users to have (read and write) access to the drive, and (relatedly) I would like to change its default mount point (which does not make sense if the drive is to be shared accross several users).
I suppose it is possible to do it by adding an entry for that drive in fstab, as often advised. But I would like to know if it is possible to rather configure udisks? I have read that polkit can be used for this, and I suspect it will offer more options and be “more modern” than the fstab way. But I have been unable to find information about how to do this. (For example this answer points to examples which suggest to add polkit rules in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ folder, but this does not exist on my system, which lets me suppose that this advice is somewhat outdated or not applicable to me.)
permissions udisks
permissions udisks
asked Oct 4 '18 at 9:01
Olivier CaillouxOlivier Cailloux
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asked Oct 4 '18 at 9:01
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I don't think that polkit is what you're looking for. It allows you to control permissions related to programs and actions on your system but it does not allow you to change the functioning of those programs/actions. If you decide to use polkit for a purpose other than what you're asking about here, the configuration files in Debian/Ubuntu are located at /usr/share/polkit-1.
You are correct that udisks is taking care of your auto-mounting. Despite what the user in your link states, there is no way to configure udisks as stated in their answer. The example they give shows command line mounting, not a configuration.
The best way of achieving your goal is indeed to use /etc/fstab. A line such as
/dev/XXX /media/DRIVENAME auto user,umask=0000 0 0
will achieve what you're trying to accomplish.
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I don't think that polkit is what you're looking for. It allows you to control permissions related to programs and actions on your system but it does not allow you to change the functioning of those programs/actions. If you decide to use polkit for a purpose other than what you're asking about here, the configuration files in Debian/Ubuntu are located at /usr/share/polkit-1.
You are correct that udisks is taking care of your auto-mounting. Despite what the user in your link states, there is no way to configure udisks as stated in their answer. The example they give shows command line mounting, not a configuration.
The best way of achieving your goal is indeed to use /etc/fstab. A line such as
/dev/XXX /media/DRIVENAME auto user,umask=0000 0 0
will achieve what you're trying to accomplish.
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Olek WojnarOlek Wojnar
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I don't think that polkit is what you're looking for. It allows you to control permissions related to programs and actions on your system but it does not allow you to change the functioning of those programs/actions. If you decide to use polkit for a purpose other than what you're asking about here, the configuration files in Debian/Ubuntu are located at /usr/share/polkit-1.
You are correct that udisks is taking care of your auto-mounting. Despite what the user in your link states, there is no way to configure udisks as stated in their answer. The example they give shows command line mounting, not a configuration.
The best way of achieving your goal is indeed to use /etc/fstab. A line such as
/dev/XXX /media/DRIVENAME auto user,umask=0000 0 0
will achieve what you're trying to accomplish.
answered 2 mins ago
Olek WojnarOlek Wojnar
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I don't think that polkit is what you're looking for. It allows you to control permissions related to programs and actions on your system but it does not allow you to change the functioning of those programs/actions. If you decide to use polkit for a purpose other than what you're asking about here, the configuration files in Debian/Ubuntu are located at /usr/share/polkit-1.
You are correct that udisks is taking care of your auto-mounting. Despite what the user in your link states, there is no way to configure udisks as stated in their answer. The example they give shows command line mounting, not a configuration.
The best way of achieving your goal is indeed to use /etc/fstab. A line such as
/dev/XXX /media/DRIVENAME auto user,umask=0000 0 0
will achieve what you're trying to accomplish.
answered 2 mins ago
Olek WojnarOlek Wojnar
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I don't think that polkit is what you're looking for. It allows you to control permissions related to programs and actions on your system but it does not allow you to change the functioning of those programs/actions. If you decide to use polkit for a purpose other than what you're asking about here, the configuration files in Debian/Ubuntu are located at /usr/share/polkit-1.
You are correct that udisks is taking care of your auto-mounting. Despite what the user in your link states, there is no way to configure udisks as stated in their answer. The example they give shows command line mounting, not a configuration.
The best way of achieving your goal is indeed to use /etc/fstab. A line such as
/dev/XXX /media/DRIVENAME auto user,umask=0000 0 0
will achieve what you're trying to accomplish.
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