From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 04:38:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E85106566B for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:38:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D078FC08 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2103A5C24 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:33:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4EF4010B.5040704@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:18:19 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: PolicyKit confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:38:49 -0000 This is doing my head in. I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get network:/// smb shares working in say nautilus (not that I've specifically mounted one- not a windows in sight here thank god!), but I was hoping for NFS shares to show up. I also got the usb disk to show up as a 'place' but when I access it I get permissions issues. This is what I'm hung up on. I checked out /media/hal-* and I see that the mount occurs only as root. How do I change that exactly? I need it showing for operator group. I've searched high and low and googled my brains out, but anything remotely related is for linux and udev. Two: a big thing I've noticed here on google, lists, whatever is a confusion related to the 'define_admin_auth' group. Some are saying it is a security risk to have an average user access this area, and others are just opening it up. I'm with the former, unless I can be convinced otherwise. Can anyone provide some clarity to this issue? What precisely is the capabilties of the 'admin_auth' group? Cheers