New authorization required for mundane activities

[Colin Law]

On 28 September 2015 at 02:02, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Starting today, with whatever update came in since Friday, every time
> I plug in a flash drive, I get a root authorization window popup
> requesting I input my admin access password to mount the drive.
>
> This appears to come from org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount,
> except that that is (obviously) not a valid URL, nor is it just
> backwards..
>
> IMNSHO, it's bad enough I have to run thunar non-stop (I almost never
> actually use it) to have the system recognize my removable drives when
> I plug them in.  That is still necessary (the system doesn't see the
> drive or acknowledge it unless I do).  This is another step in the
> wrong direction.

When I plug in a flash drive it pops up nautilus windows for the
partitions thereon.  Does this not happen for you?  I have not even
got thunar installed so it is certainly not necessary to run it in
order to recognise flash drives.

Colin