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Suddenly popping in a USB or CD\/DVD was asking for authentication! \u00a0Short story, polkit issue. \u00a0Edit org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy in \/usr\/share\/polkit-1\/actions<\/em>\u00a0and change:<\/p>\n

org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat
\norg.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media-other-seat<\/p>\n

to read:<\/p>\n

“<allow_active> yes<\/allow_active>”<\/p>\n

polkit \u2014 Authorization Manager<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suddenly popping in a USB or CD\/DVD was asking for authentication! \u00a0Short story, polkit issue. \u00a0Edit org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy in \/usr\/share\/polkit-1\/actions\u00a0and change: org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media-other-seat to read: “<allow_active> yes<\/allow_active>” polkit \u2014 Authorization Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Polkit and USB Mount Authentication","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[68,77],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","tag-polkit","tag-usb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":449,"url":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=449","url_meta":{"origin":221,"position":0},"title":"NUC7PJYH: Installing Gentoo","author":"Mike","date":"January 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Start This project was a real rocky start. 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