Mounting external drive w/o pass authentication

In gitlab.freedesktop.org by AngryPhantom on Apr 13, 2023, 13:10

Link to the original issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/195

Current behaviour, description of the problem

It's more a question. Though it may also be an issue.

I cannot mount my external drive without password authentication for some reason. I'm using an arch-based distribution (Artix Linux).

The distro uses /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-artix.rules:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (action.id.indexOf("org.freedesktop.udisks2.") == 0 && subject.isInGroup("storage")) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

The strangest part that it works on another (older) installation of Artix, but not on a fresh one. Both HDDs are ext4 and connected via SATA. Package versions are the same everywhere. I've tried every (seems so) possible variant out there (different kernels, downgrading polkit, different rules syntax etc.), but to no avail. I have polkit and polkit-gnome installed.

I also understand that it could be this distro's specific issue and not polkit. I just can't figure out what I'm missing.

Reproducer

I dunno, probably install the latest Artix ISO.

Detailed description

Version of polkit: 122-1

Version of polkit-gnome: 0.105-10

Version of OS: Artix Linux, kernel branches 5.15 and 6.1

Thank you in advance.

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