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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

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'

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

Try to unmount the partition before you tick the 'user' box.

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

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.
Roy