Mounting external harddisks on Ubuntu intrepid
I’ve updated our development/backupserver to ubuntu intrepid, but unfortunately, mounting of external harddrives became a pain. Off the shelves, gnome in intrepid only allows root to (auto)mount external drives (way to go guys! make linux even more user unfriendly!).
To solve this issue:
1. Open polkit-gnome-authorization
2. Go to Storage => Mount file systems from removable drivers
3. Press the “Edit…” button
4. Choose “Active Console: Authentication” and chose the appropiate setting (I just gave every known user full RW-mount permission)
5. Press the “Modify…” button
rant:
Really, linux and especially ubuntu had been working for years to make Linux acceptable for the broad audience. With the netbooks revolution, a lot of people became familiar with Linux. So how can you do such a change that pisses the common people off? This much trouble to get some external drives working? Really?