Bug 556347 - Device mount policy mismatch across GNOME/GTK and KDE/QT4
Summary: Device mount policy mismatch across GNOME/GTK and KDE/QT4
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: polkit
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-18 01:56 UTC by Mostafa Afgani
Modified: 2013-03-06 04:01 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-01-18 16:47:05 UTC
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Description Mostafa Afgani 2010-01-18 01:56:18 UTC
Description of problem:
The authorisation policy across the two environments are inconsistent. Under GNOME/GTK apps, trying to mount/unmount non-system partitions results in a popup asking for authorisation. Once the root password is supplied, the partition is mounted with my UID and is accessible. When trying to do the same through a KDE/QT4 app such as Dolphin, no password/authorisation at all is needed and the volume is mounted with the root UID/GID.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-0.95-0.git20090913.3.fc12.x86_64
(not really sure if this is a polkit bug)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to mount an unmounted volume using Dolphin -> no authorisation needed
2. Try doing the same through Nautilus -> root password needed

  
Actual results:
GNOME/GTK apps such as Nautilus ask for authorisation when mounting internal non-system volumes while KDE/QT4 apps such as Dolphin do not.

Expected results:
Consistent behaviour -- either they both ask for authorisation or they don't.

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2010-01-18 16:47:05 UTC
As you said already with your "not sure if this is a polkit bug" parenthetical remark, polkit is a generic authorization framework and is not concerned with how people choose to use it (if at all). Not sure where to file such bugs - it sounds to me like Dolphin isn't using DeviceKit-disks/udisks or polkit. I don't know. Anyway, closing as NOTABUG.


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