[Mageia-discuss] Cannot unmount media as user

Len Lawrence tarazed25 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 12:22:29 CEST 2012


On 10/06/12 10:38, RICHARD WALKER wrote:
> This sounds familiar to me as I had this problem for the first time
> while we were testing Cauldron back in January/February.
>
> Could you post the output from running ck-list-sessions ?
>
> Richard
>
> On 10/06/2012, Len Lawrence<tarazed25 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Mageia 2 fully updated
>> GNOME Classic
>>
>> This is probably a newbie question....  I am not sure when this started
>> to happen but when, as a user, I try to unmount a USB drive via the
>> desktop icon I am told that I am not authorized to perform that
>> operation.  After browsing bugzilla and the forums it looked like the
>> best way to get past this would be to use sudo.  However, editing the
>> sudoers file always throws up a syntax error.  I have tried various
>> commands based on examples but cannot get any to work.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> ALL /bin/umount NOPASSWD
>> %users /bin/umount NOPASSWD
>> %users localhost=/bin/umount NOPASSWD
>>
>> What is the correct recipe?  RTFM only makes my old brain spin.
>>
>> Len
>>
>>
[lcl at belexeuli ~]$ ck-list-sessions
Session3:
     unix-user = '500'
     realname = 'Len Lawrence'
     seat = 'Seat1'
     session-type = ''
     active = TRUE
     x11-display = ':0'
     x11-display-device = '/dev/tty2'
     display-device = ''
     remote-host-name = ''
     is-local = TRUE
     on-since = '2012-06-09T22:45:39.834639Z'
     login-session-id = '3'



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