[SOLVED] Authentication adjustment required

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[SOLVED] Authentication adjustment required

Postby royd1 » May 2nd, '21, 00:35

Hi All
I upgraded online from Mageia 7 to 8. Prior to upgraded I removed my Backup drive so it was safe from any corruptions. I am using Plasma. I did start having the black screen so I went did a Repair/upgrade existing install. I reconnected the backup drive. The Mageia is working well except that the Backup drive wants the root password everytime I start/reboot. I wish it would just use the User password.

On startup I get the message

Authentication is required to mount WDC WD10EZEX-75M2NAO (/dev/sdb5). An application is attemping to perform an action that requires provilages.

Under Fstab it does not show the drive

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# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=5b1d4deb-2199-4a15-ab7a-f6a6148f96bf / ext4 relatime,acl 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=c42dd5ae-1d23-40e2-ab86-75bbef2a0620 /home ext4 relatime,acl 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=b0d9b3cb-bb8f-4509-aa5c-490490d35dc2 swap swap defaults 0 0


Under MCC – Local disks – Manage disk partitions. The drive below which I believe relates to the Authentication issue is here.

Device: sdb5
Volume label: Backup
UUID: 1d46564f-e4ee-402e-a470-dc9ba2a159d1
Type: Journalised FS: ext4 (0x83)
Start: sector 4096
Size: 931GB (99% of disk), 1953499904 sectors
Cylinder 0 to 121599
Mounted

I tried another blank drive for the backup but the same message came up.

Please how do I fix this?

Many thanks
Roy
Last edited by doktor5000 on May 2nd, '21, 22:17, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: added code tags, marked solved
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Re: Authentication adjustment required

Postby sturmvogel » May 2nd, '21, 09:16

You have to set the 'user' flag for this partition, so that a normal user can mount this drive.


Under MCC –> Local disks –> Manage disk partitions -> click on the partition -> Expert Mode -> Options -> Tick 'user'
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Re: Authentication adjustment required

Postby royd1 » May 2nd, '21, 09:56

Hi sturmvogel

Thank you for the suggestion, I did as you suggested
Under MCC –> Local disks –> Manage disk partitions -> click on the partition -> Expert Mode -> Options -> Tick 'user'
I did do this and click done when finished.
Rebooted no change.

Checked by going to Under MCC –> Local disks –> Manage disk partitions -> click on the partition -> Expert Mode -> Options -> Tick 'user'
Tick is none.
Tried several times with checking before rebooting and found the tick disappears once I click done.

Roy
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Re: Authentication adjustment required

Postby sturmvogel » May 2nd, '21, 10:21

Try to unmount the partition before you tick the 'user' box.
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Re: Authentication adjustment required

Postby doktor5000 » May 2nd, '21, 14:12

Would be helpful if you would mention what filesystem is used on that drive. Also FWIW any option in diskdrake will only have effect if you assign a mountpoint to a partition/drive.

But in general, if you don't have an fstab entry, I'd suggest to add a polkit rule for this:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Useful_polki ... t_password
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[Solved] Re: Authentication adjustment required

Postby royd1 » May 2nd, '21, 21:47

Thank you sturmvogel for your help.
With your instructions I found the drive was not mounted. I mounted it and the authentication issue went away.
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