[Bug 59415] Users should be able to umount volumes

[DiegoCG]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a windows NTFS partition, the ubuntu installer mounted that
partition by default and gnome shows an icon that gets me into the
filesystem when I double click it. Fine. The problem is that when I
right-click the icon and I select "umount volume", I get an erro dialog
telling me that "only root can umount..."

This is not the right behaviour for ubuntu. In other places of the
ubuntu desktop, users are asked for their passwords (if the users belong
to the wheel group, ie: like the default user created by then installer)
when they need to run a admin app. Umounting a volume shouldn't be
different. It's even worse: There's "no root" user in ubuntu, so you
just can't umount a volume using a gui, only using the command line
(sudo umount /foo) is possible. The current behaviour is wrong and
breaks the consistency with the rest of the desktop.

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: nautilus
  
  I have a windows NTFS partition, the ubuntu installer mounted that
  partition by default and gnome shows an icon that gets me into the
- filesystem when I double click it.
- 
- The problem is that when I right-click the icon and I select "umount
- volume", I get an erro dialog telling me that "only root can umount..."
+ filesystem when I double click it. Fine. The problem is that when I
+ right-click the icon and I select "umount volume", I get an erro dialog
+ telling me that "only root can umount..."
  
  This is not the right behaviour for ubuntu. In other places of the
- ubuntu desktop, users are asked for their passwords and the app will
- "sudo" the umounting. The extra partitions mounted by default by the
- ubuntu installer shouldn't be different.
+ ubuntu desktop, users are asked for their passwords (if the users belong
+ to the wheel group, ie: like the default user created by then installer)
+ when they need to run a admin app. Umounting a volume shouldn't be
+ different. It's even worse: There's "no root" user in ubuntu, so you
+ just can't umount a volume using a gui, only using the command line
+ (sudo umount /foo) is possible. The current behaviour is wrong and
+ breaks the consistency with the rest of the desktop.

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Users should be able to umount volumes
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59415