HAL with new kdebase (permission problems)

Michael Nottebrock lofi at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 21 15:09:37 PST 2006


On Thursday, 21. December 2006 23:33, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Not true.  You need to be a member of the operator group to mount
> > removable media with HAL unless KDE is not going through D-BUS for
> > mounting.
>
> I'm not sure about the going-through-D-BUS part, but it certainly works for
> me as (uid=1001(lofi) gid=1001(lofi) groups=1001(lofi).

Turns out dbus only reads /etc/groups once on startup, so it didn't notice I 
had subsequently removed myself from group operator. One more thing to add to 
UPDATING then ...

Cheers,
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