[Bug 528907] Re: unable to mount disks in dolphin / hal permission denied

[Martin Pitt]

Reopening for kdelibs. It occurred to me that changing this in hal
actually opens quite a large security hole: _any_ user (or malicious
script), not just admins, can now change/reformat/tamper with internal
storage devices, including the system partition, thus I'd rather leave
this disabled in hal (it has never been allowed in hal until yesterday).

Can we get the original kubuntu_06_user_disk_mounting.diff fixed, to use
kdesu again?

** Also affects: kdelibs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Package changed: kdelibs (Ubuntu Lucid) => kdebase (Ubuntu Lucid)

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu Lucid)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04-beta-2

** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu Lucid)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)

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unable to mount disks in dolphin / hal permission denied
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Status in “hal” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in “kdebase” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “hal” source package in Lucid: In Progress
Status in “kdebase” source package in Lucid: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: kdebase

When I tried to mount a unmounted partition in dolphin, I get following error message :
org.freedesktop.Hald.device.volume.permissionDenied: Refusing to mount device /dev/sdax for uid=xxxx

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 27 09:47:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: dolphin 4:4.4.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64