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stk

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Registered: 2023-09-15

Posts: 10

How to set up Polkit to allow Dolphin to mount different Partitions?

Hey, Dolphin returned the error message shown below when I tried to manually mount a partition with it, so I figured I need to install polkit in order to get PolicyKit to work.
man.archlinux.org | polkitd
Above Arch page tells me that I don't need to start polkitd manually, but only using

sudo pacman -S polkit

has changed nothing and the Dolphin-errormessage stays the same.

So how can I get the PolicyKit to work?

Dolphin-errormessage:

An error occurred while accessing 'root', the system responded: Cannot request authentication for this action. The PolicyKit authentication system appears to be not available.: Not authorized to perform operation

Edit: I don't know if this information is important, but I don't use a desktop environment, just bspwm.

Last edited by stk (2023-09-15 15:25:21)

3beb6e7c46a615a

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Registered: 2021-03-27

Posts: 165

Re: How to set up Polkit to allow Dolphin to mount different Partitions?

You also need an authentication agent for polkit, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … ion_agents

stk

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Registered: 2023-09-15

Posts: 10

Re: How to set up Polkit to allow Dolphin to mount different Partitions?

You also need an authentication agent for polkit, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … ion_agents

Ohh thank you <3