How to mount removable media

[hick518]

What's the recommended way to handle mounting of USB sticks and such?  I'm running LXDE with the pcmanfm file manager.  It asks for the root password any time I try to mount a USB stick.  Do I need to create a rule for policykit, or is there some higher level setting I can choose?

[emarsk]

I use udevil from the command line, and it can also be used by the GUI filemanager SpaceFM. I don't know about PcmanFM, though.

[hick518]

Actually, I use udevil and spacefm on a machine I use at work.  But I find that music players such as Clementine, Quodlibet, and Guayadeque do not recognize a usb stick device as removable media if it's mounted in such a way.  That means I can't drag/transcode songs to a portable player.  Do you know any way of addressing that issue?

[Sandro]

I've no oxperience about lxde; but in KDE the usbkeys or others are mounted in /run/media/username/

 

now I make an experiment installing lxde :)

I wil tell to you :)

 

PS: very strange..... either in lxde than in KDE reduires root password to have access at the usbkey or other "pluggable" devices (i'm in plugdev and usb  and cdrom,cdrw group :|)

 

few time ago ... there wasn't the request of root password..... may be a little bug ? or same wrong impostation ?

 

This is not the first time that there is this trouble..... it seems the "anytime" the policy changes @_@

Sometimes more permissive ... sometimes more restrictives ...... Boh :(

 

I don't know Sorry and excuse me ... :(

[cardinal]

Lxde uses udisks2 with console-kit/polkit enforcing user permissions.
If user console-kit session is active = TRUE then user can mount/eject usb flash drive without being asked for the password.
This works on my system with no configuration using a display manager such as lxdm,slim,or lightdm.

Output after using a login manager:
ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = 'x11'
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0.0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2015-09-12T15:32:33.676540Z'
login-session-id = '1'

My .xinitrc to login from console followed by startx for xsession:

rj@funtoo ~ $ cat .xinitrc 
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startlxde

Output after console login followed by startx:
rj@funtoo ~ $ ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2015-09-12T20:28:56.582349Z'
login-session-id = '1'
idle-since-hint = '2015-09-12T20:29:32.526813Z'
Session2:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2015-09-12T20:29:05.207903Z'
login-session-id = '1'

Udisks2 default polkit policies to mount/umount removable media:
implicit active: yes from policies, if ck-list-sessions outputs active = TRUE then password is not required.

Mount removable media,usb flash drives:
pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount
org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount:
description: Mount a filesystem
message: Authentication is required to mount the filesystem
vendor: The udisks Project
vendor_url: http://udisks.freedesktop.org/
icon: drive-removable-media
implicit any: auth_admin
implicit inactive: auth_admin
implicit active: yes

Eject/ unmount removable media flash drives:
pkaction --verbose --action-id org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media
description: Eject media
message: Authentication is required to eject media
vendor: The udisks Project
vendor_url: http://udisks.freedesktop.org/
icon: drive-removable-media
implicit any: auth_admin
implicit inactive: auth_admin
implicit active: yes