Bug 140151

Summary: USB Flash drivers are not automatically mounted for NIS authenticated users
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Enrique Matías Sánchez <cronopios>
Component: kdedAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Enrique Matías Sánchez 2007-01-16 11:31:21 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Using a Kubuntu 6.10 system (KDE 3.5.5), when a USB Flash drive is plugged, local users get a KDE daemon window allowing them to mount the drive.

NIS authenticated users get that window as well, but then the receive a "URL malformed" error.

These very same users can mount the flash drive from konsole, issuing the command `pmount /dev/sdb /media/usbdisk`.

The home directory for these users is mounted through NFS on `/export/home0/username'.
Comment 1 Simon Oosthoek 2007-02-13 10:13:19 UTC
Wow, I have exactly this same problem at work, but not on all systems with NIS authentication. At home I have NIS as well, but there it does work (however, the user is configured locally in the group file as well, so that may make a difference.

It's pretty hard to debug this problem when all you have is a "malformed url" message. I was about to file a wishlist item to make that more informative.
Comment 2 Simon Oosthoek 2007-02-13 10:41:20 UTC
Adding the user to the plugdev group using this method explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo isn't enough to fix it. Which is why I've had a hard time debugging this.

I had to actually edit the local group file on the client machine, adding the user (before login of course) to /etc/group in plugdev (adduser <user> plugdev should also work).

Isn't this strange anyway, I doubt KDE needs to know about authentication issues, it should just be able to process the error message if it doesn't work. The OS should handle the authentication problem (and then it would use whatever is configured, like pam and NIS or LDAP or local files as stated in /etc/nsswitch.conf)

Please fix this, it's a big problem for organisations with centralised authentication!
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 04:21:43 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 02:48:32 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2022-12-08 23:51:14 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 6 Enrique Matías Sánchez 2022-12-09 09:30:39 UTC
Sorry, I no longer have that setup, so I cannot even try to reproduce the issue.
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-24 05:22:25 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is
ready to be confirmed.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-08 05:15:42 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!