Only root can automount CD drive and USB thumb drive

[km4hr]

Nothing happens when ordinary users plug in a USB thumb drive or insert a CD into CDROM drive. Works fine for root. After root mounts the drives then all users can use them. How can I enable mounting/unmounting by all users? I used the same CD's to install the OS (CentOS 5) on another machine. Mounting works fine there. What's going on?

[Deonis]

what linux are you using - Brand, Version?
Fedora 9?

[rthomas]

I'm betting you're running rawhide or F11 alpha... I've got the same issue, but I haven't updated for some time now so the latest updates may have fixed it?

[km4hr]

Originally Posted by Deonis

what linux are you using - Brand, Version?
Fedora 9?

I'm using CentOS 5, a clone of Redhat 5 I believe. Installation CD's were made about 3 months ago. I don't know how to find the exact version. There must be some command for that.

[marko]

Originally Posted by km4hr

I'm using CentOS 5, a clone of Redhat 5 I believe. Installation CD's were made about 3 months ago. I don't know how to find the exact version. There must be some command for that.

You can see the particular version via:

cat /etc/issue

[notageek]

Moved to Linux Chat

Reason: The question is not related to Fedora. All other Linux related question go in Linux Chat.

[Deonis]

try to type in terminal polkit-gnome-authorization. you will see a window for managing "authorizations". I have never played with CentOS so I can not say it will work for sure!

[bg3075]

Originally Posted by Deonis

try to type in terminal polkit-gnome-authorization. you will see a window for managing "authorizations". I have never played with CentOS so I can not say it will work for sure!

I tried this but I cannot grant authorizations...is there a way to make yourself have administrator-type permissions for your userid?