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

[Scott DuBois]

On 10/26/2014 10:44 PM, 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.
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Yeah, I have a similar situation whereas I have an external eSATA drive
that I can simply find it in the left panel of Dolphin and click then it
will mount but, if I'm only working in Konsole without performing the
previous in Dolphin, I can't get to it.

As I've recently installed a new internal drive, my suspicion is that
one needs to follow the same procedure of creating a mount point based
on the UUID and edit fstab to reflect:

sudo blkid
(find your device in the list)
sudo vim /etc/fstab
UUID=<drive ID number>   <mount point>    <file type>  defaults  0  2

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1432413

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