Linux – Arch Linux , mount disks with thunar , without password

arch linuxpolkitthunar

I just setup a minimal installation of Arch , installed gvfs , thunar-volman.

But mounting disk requires password , this shouldn't happen.

How should I work it out ?

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The Arch Wiki has a section on the udev page that covers the many ways you can set up automounting.

With a minimal install (without a DE), you can use a udev rule—there are several examples included on the page—or udisks and one of the wrappers like udiskie, or something even simpler like ldm that requires no other tools.

My preference is for udiskie and the storage group.

Essentially, it is just a matter of starting udiskie in your .xinitrc and creating /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-udiskie.pkla:

 [Local Users]
 Identity=unix-group:storage
 Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.*
 ResultAny=yes
 ResultInactive=no
 ResultActive=yes

Anyone in the storage group will now be able to mount and unmount devices.

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Rules of this sort, whether polkit or udev are no longer necessary if you have an active session under systemd/logind. Originally, rules of this sort were a workaround for non-consolekit sessions, but now Arch has moved to systemd they are no longer necessary and are more likely to inhibit correct automounting behaviour rather than assist it.

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