Ejecter

How can I get rid of password prompt?

Asked by wl2776

I usually mount my usb pendrive with the Krusader.
When I try to unmount it with the Ejecter, it asks for a password.
If I mount the pendrive with the Nautilus, it is unmounted without the password prompt.

I run Gnome desktop, but use Krusader as a file manager, because of its feature richness. I usually don't run Nautilus.
How can I get rid of ejecter's password prompt?

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Federico Pelloni (fredp) said : 		#1

To be honest I have no idea.
Probably that's happening because Krusader uses a different hardware management system than Nautilus, but I have power on this things as Ejecter sits on top of Gtk/Gnome infrastructure. It's probably up to the two upstream teams (Gnome and Kde folks) to better co-operate

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wl2776 (wl2776) said : 		#2

Ok. I'd like to develop a workaround.
Does the ejecter call umount? If yes, then I could write this command to sudoers.

Krusader seems to use hal.
The file /media/.hal-mtab changes when it mounts/unmounts the flash drive.
When I mount a flash drive using gnome (by clicking Places -> my flash), this file remains unchanged.

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Federico Pelloni (fredp) said : 		#3

Ejecter doesn't call umount, at least directly. It's using the functions provided by Gio/Gtk libraries, that IIRC are getting rid of Hal.
If you mount a drive with Krusader and then try to unmount it with Nautilus does it ask for the password as well? (I think it should)

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wl2776 (wl2776) said : 		#4

Yes, it does.

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Federico Pelloni (fredp) said : 		#5

Then Ejecter will stop asking for the password when Nautilus will, and fixing that is up to the GTK guys

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