[Bug 1000268] Re: please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB stick

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

The code at least tries to check if the drive is marked as "device-is-
system-internal" by udisks and aborts if that is the case.

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Title:
  please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB
  stick

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This is a wishlist bug. Currently

  http://www.ubuntu.com/download

  nicely describes how a user can create Ubuntu installation USB stick
  using usb-creator. What it does not mention is that you need to be an
  admin to create the USB stick since
  /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.usbcreator.policy has
  "auth_admin_keep" set.

  This is unfortunate since it means that users can not create Ubuntu
  installation USB sticks on computers where they do not have admin
  privileges (think university class rooms, libraries, work places where
  people are not given root privileges to their desktops).

  Please consider if this could be relaxed to at least to allow local
  users to create such installation media.

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