How to give the password when mounting partition

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On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, aka Lucid Lynx, when we mount the partition then no longer prompt appears to enter a password, different from previous releases such as Ubuntu 9.10 which requires us to enter the root password when mounting a partition, especially of type NTFS.

Lucid Lynx users may have forgotten the habit of entering a password when mounting the partition, but how if you want to restore that feature on the Ubuntu 10.04 +?

This feature is actually useful, especially to users who have many partition active and want to secure from users who are not given access rights.

Note: not useful if you make your partition was mounted automatically at boot.

Step 1:

Open Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

Step 2:

Copy the command below, then paste it into Terminal and press Enter.

gksu gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla

Step 3:

Furthermore, the text editor window opens. In the 4th line (in the [Mounting, checking, etc. of internal drives]), change

ResultActive=yes

becomes:

ResultActive=auth_admin_keep

Step 4:

Save file.

If you want menormalkannya back (to disable password request when the mount partitions) then:

sudo mv /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla.bak

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