[SOLVED] USB stick authorization error

[IceBlackz]

Hello,

I am planning to use my Arch Linux RaspPi from remote desktop only, therefore I use xrdp to make this able (eventually it's gonna be VPN tunnelled).
However, when I try to connect an USB stick while in remote access, it gives me a "Not authorized" error and the USB device is not mounted. When logged in locally/physically everything works fine and the USB stick just mounts.

I am able to mount it manually via sudo, but I want it mounted automatically without requiring the user to take any actions. I installed udiskie in the hopes that it would fix that, but the same error still occurs. When I run sudo pcmanfm it does also mount, but won't be accessible when using pcmanfm as non-root.

Also, I tried to add a polkit rule via /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/00-early-checks.rules:

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polkit.addRule(function(action) {
    if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system") {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

After adding this rule I do see it is read correctly when launching sudo /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd, but still it won't automount when logged in via rdp.

I feel like that if I'm able to launch udiskie as root from /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh, it might be mounted automatically but I don't know how to run something as root from there.

Maybe there are other solutions, please let me know!

[IceBlackz]

Aaah, finally found a solution after 2 days of full time work..

I eventually found this link of the udiskie program itself:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/udiskie

Specifically this part was interesting:

..
Alternatively, change the setting for allow_inactive to yes in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy:

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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">
    ...
    <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
    ...
</action>

...

Do this for all relevant actions.

In there I changed the permissions for filesystem-mount,luks-unlock,unmount-others,drive-eject,drive-detach and change all to yes. Now the USB drive automounts without any problems. No external tools like udiskie or gvfs are needed now, pcmanfm just handles it all

[lerner]

Thank you so much!

This happened to me and I was totally stuck.

I found the errors/messages in the log files and searched for the "URL" (org.disk.....) and found your post.

I am still a bit confused about all the other things you changed.

In there I changed the permissions for filesystem-mount,luks-unlock,unmount-others,drive-eject,drive-detach and change all to yes. Now the USB drive automounts without any problems. No external tools like udiskie or gvfs are needed now, pcmanfm just handles it all

That is still beyond me, but I am working on it.