Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests [solved]

[azenz]

When I add my usual drives to fstab I get a KDD password (root) request for each drive. That wasn't the case in Hardy! Any way to avoid this? ALso when clicking on these drives in Dolphin I get root password boxes.

Fstab is:

/dev/sdb1 /media/disk ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda4 /media/data-backup vfat rw,umask=0 0 0

[PJJ]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

I have the same 'issue'. It must have something to do with the fact that I dual boot and access my hard drives and their partitions from either OS (10.04 and 9.04).

Ignore the request and enter the password when you want to access a partition.

If you open Dolphin as root, you get to access all drives and partitions automatically. Having said that I add that one of my drives never is accessible that way. Don't know why!

[rfakhrai]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

you should be able to do a chown command on these drives. I think root by default owns these drives.

see the man page for chown for info on options.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

I didn't want to respond to this initially because I've never seen this behavior.

I have had up to six OS's installed and accessed shared partitions among them and never had this happen so I doubt that's it - unless; you're using different UID/GID numbers. Then of course you won't have access.

Normal behavior for an fstab mount is to allow access based on the mount point. So if your target directory allows access - so should your mounted partition.

If you don't use an fstab mount and use Dolphin to access a drive or partition, it uses HAL which I believe will not allow full access by default.

I've never seen any fstab entry cause a root password pop-up window. Since fstab is processed before the GUI is started, I can't see how this could happen. Maybe if you described in better details what you are doing when it happens

[PJJ]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

In my case it just pops up right after login and even before the desktop is fully loaded.

And yes, I have access to the drives and partitions even without completing the password requests.

[stevek]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

Hi,

Try going to System Settings>Advanced>Removable Devices and uncheck "Enable automatic mounting of removable media".

Worked for me

[azenz]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

Hi,

Try going to System Settings>Advanced>Removable Devices and uncheck "Enable automatic mounting of removable media".

Worked for me

Bingo, that worked for me too! And partitions that are not specified in fstab cause a password request when clicking on them in Dolphin (and no access if password is not entered). The others don't. I have a feeling this automatic mounting option is going to drive quite a few Lucid users nuts and will cause more forum entries...there should be an option somewhere to enable mounting w/o the need for password entry. Thanks to all of you!

[rfakhrai]

Re: Fstab entries cause KDE root password requests

it's because /media is a "dynamically-created" mountpoint. You can probably do a sudo mkdir /media/ and it would take care of it.

mark this topic as [solved] please.