Bug 235447

Summary:	USB harddrive connected during start up password required
Product:	[Unmaintained] solid	Reporter:	Jørgen Vero <jorgen.vero>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Jørgen Vero 2010-04-26 16:17:42 UTC

Version:           unknown (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-21-generic

Hi Guys,
can you fix the following or let me know if I'm doing something wrong?

During startup of my pc I'm having an external USB harddrive attached to the PC.
When trying to enter it or some of the content I'm asked to enter my password.
When unmounting I'm having to reenter my password.

The funny thing is. If I do attach the hard drive after start up no password is requested. The same when unmounting the same disk.

Thnx
Good job.

Comment 1 Kevin Ottens 2010-05-06 20:08:28 UTC

I've recently been made aware of some (rather awful) patches the Kubuntu hackers added to our code. From the description you made it seems pretty clear to me that it is causing this password dialog to appear (likely kdesu) because somehow you don't have the rights to mount/umount the disk.

As for why you don't have said rights when you boot with the disk already plugged, it's again probably something specific to the distro, and definitely outside of libsolid and lower in the stack (so out of reach for me).