USB requires root password to automount

[Frank616]

I should have asked about this a long time ago...

USB flash drives used to automount with no problem. Now I have to provide the user (SUDO) password for this to work. Why, and what can I do to avoid this?

On a similar theme, one of my new machines (Sklyake) now asks for the user password when automounting a DVD as well. It was a Windows program disk that I was using with WINE, and the install went to the root /home folder rather than the user account. Took me a couple of hours to figure out what happened there, and to fix it.

Again, how can I stop this behavior?

Thanks.

Frank.

[vinnywright]

just to check ,,,,,, run this ,,,,did it "find" anything

find ~/ -user root

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

On a similar theme, one of my new machines (Sklyake) now asks for the user password when automounting a DVD as well. It was a Windows program disk that I was using with WINE, and the install went to the root /home folder rather than the user account. Took me a couple of hours to figure out what happened there, and to fix it.

Again, how can I stop this behavior?

Which behavior? The part where you're still using Windows programs??

[Frank616]

Oshunluvr:

Yeah, don't rub my nose in it... I have one proprietary Windows program that has no Linux equivalent that I must still use. :-(

Vinny:

frank@Rhino:~$ find ~/ -user root
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.7/.libs/libhpmud.so.0.0.6T
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.7/.libs/libsane-hpaio.so.1.0.0T
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.7/.libs/cupsext.soT
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.7/.libs/hpmudext.soT
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.7/.libs/libhpipp.so.0.0.1T
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.11/.libs/libhpmud.so.0.0.6T
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.11/.libs/libsane-hpaio.so.1.0.0T
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.11/.libs/cupsext.soT
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.11/.libs/hpmudext.soT
/home/frank/Downloads/hplip-3.16.11/.libs/libhpipp.so.0.0.1T
frank@Rhino:~$

This came from my laptop, not the machine I originally inquired about. However, all 4 of my Linux boxes show the same behavior when plugging in a USB thumb drive. I only had the root installation on one of those machines when using WINE.

FWIW, I get the menu popup when plugging in a USB stick, asking what do do with the device - open with File Manager, open with x, and so on. I usually ask to have it opened in File Manager, and that is when I get the request for the sudo password. However, I noticed yesterday after I made this post that if I ignore the popup, and just open the File manager manually, I am not required to give the sudo password to actually open the device.

Weird.

Frank.

[oshunluvr]

Weird indeed. My first thought was the folder(s) under /media weren't owned by you.