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Can I turn off this need for Authentication?

Asked by David Platt

I'm very new to Ubuntu, having only just succeeded in installing 9.10, dual boot with Windows 7, and having first wiped one of my hard disks in the process! Only took a couple of hours to rebuild it so no real damage done!

I find it very difficult to understand the documentation and it took me two days to discover how to change the default boot OS. Now I would like to turn off the need for Authentication every time I try to access one of the hard disks on my PC. Its my PC, I'm the only user, so why do I have to enter my password every time I want to access folders and files on a disk drive? I can see the need on a multi-user PC, but this is just little ol' me!

I set up a nice desktop picture, reboot and its no longer there, presumably because it needs Authentication to retrieve the image during boot.

Cheers.

David

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Maxim Petrov (maximpetrov) said : 		#1

Add into /etc/fstab string like this (if you have more than one disk add this string for every disk)

UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /media/MOUNT_POINT ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

replace XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with UUID of your disk (you can see it when execute "sudo blkid" in shell)
replace MOUNT_POINT with mount point of your disk (directory in /media that must exists)

P.S.Excuse my bad English )

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#2

     Yep, something like that will do it. Just to explain, the MOUNT_POINT has to be created in the /mnt directory for this to work. Simply use a terminal and type sudo mkdir Windows (this would name the mount point Windows, which makes it easy to remember, but you can use whatever you want). I believe the 'defaults' setting will automatically mount it at boot, which will make it accessible right away. If this isn't enough, you might add 'user' as well, comma separated: defaults,user. Of course, there is more information available from the manual page, use 'man fstab' to read that.
     Special thanks to Maxim, I didn't know about the new format using UUID, or the blkid command.

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David Platt (daveplatt999) said : 		#3

Thanks for your help. I tried as suggested but get the following error when I try to access the disk drive:
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Unable to mount DELL Slave

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

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"DELL Slave" is the Windows 7 name of the disk drive.

I'll remove the command line from fstab and put up with having to enter my Authentication password when I want to access the drive for the first time.

Thanks again.

David

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