Password required to mount External Drives, Thumb Drives & SD Chips after upgrading to Kubuntu 14.10

[Cody Smith]

As was suggested, this looks like a permission issue. Have you tried "sudo
chown -R <username>:<username> /path/to/drive" without quotes and replacing
the two <username> instances with your username and /path/to/drive with the
path (under the / directory) to the drive? That'll put your user as the
owner of the drive and its contents.
On Monday, October 27, 2014, Alan Dacey (grokit) <grokit at ajinfosearch.com>
wrote:

>  On Monday, October 27, 2014 1:44:20 AM James R McKenzie wrote:
>
> > I just rebooted my system for the first time since doing a command line
> upgrade of Kubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 14.10 and when I tried to open one of
> the External Drives I was presented with a system needs authorization
> screen (basically it asked me to type in the administrative password in
> order to allow the drive(s) to mount) I played a hunch and discovered that
> I have to so this in order to open "ANY" external drive of any kind. Is
> there a setting I can change to do away with this and if so exactly where
> is it? I load my preferred wallpaper from an external drive (none of the
> provided images are of any interest at all, they are all too boring) and it
> can't load with this setting. I already went into the control center and
> set all external drives to auto-mount on start-up but that apparently
> didn't have the desired effect. Am I over-looking something? Any/All help
> will be appreciated.
>
> >
>
> > Thank You In Advance.
>
> >
>
>
>
> What are the permissions on the folder(s) that the disks are auto-mounting
> to?
>
>
>
> Also what in your /etc/fstab file? If you are going to have a setup with
> auto-mounted disks on startup then that would be the preferred way to do it
> (in my opinion of course).
>
>
>
> --
>
> Alan
>
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