Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 25/07/14 09:36, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 08:07:10AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote
>
>> Install gnome-base/gvfs with USE="gphoto2 mtp" and then use gvfs-mount
>> to mount the device, because gvfs-mount
>> will make use of your PolicyKit with ConsoleKit or systemd-logind
>> authorization that allows mounting as a *local*
>> and *normal* user.
>> Then you don't need the mtpfs command, any group, any custom udev rules, ...
>   Pulling in gnome-base/gvfs and media-libs/libgphoto2 isn't that big an
> issue.  The question is... will I be able to mount from a straight text
> console, especially when X is not running?
>

Semi-long answer

Yes, if you have /etc/init.d/consolekit in your default runlevel, and
sys-auth/consolekit built with USE="pam"
and sys-auth/pambase built with USE="consolekit", you get a PAM module
called pam_ck_connector.so
So, when you login to text console, pam_ck_connector.so kicks in and
will tell PolicyKit you are a local user,
it will show up in `ck-list-sessions` command as "active = TRUE" -line
Then, when you run gvfs-mount from text console, it will query PolicyKit
if you are allowed or not, and
you are, since pam_ck_connector.so has done the job

Short answer:

Yes, everything related works from command line outside of X as well

- Samuli