On 25 June 2012 11:10, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Anything special in your gdm pam configs? Or even in the system-auth pam >>>>> file? >>>> Yes, I'm using pam_mount to automatically mount my encrypted home >>>> directory. But given that it is handled in system-auth, and that other >>>> kind of login works, I'm sceptic. >>> >>> Well I'm somewhat sceptical too, but I'd still like to work out why it >>> fails for you. >>> >>> I would imagine it works for TV tho' I don't know for certain if the two >>> machines he referred to run a DE or not. >> >> One does, one doesn't. >> On the one that does, btw, one must provide the root password in order >> to mount a USB key if "su - foobar" is run in a terminal... > > Does the one running a DM let you login OK via gdm? > > So USB keys mount OK after a fresh boot, but as soon as you do "su - > foobar" mounting is broken? Or have I misunderstood the problem?
The computer is logged by my gf, but I "su - my_account" in a terminal with screen then running some root sessions too in order to work on my stuff. In that case, plugging a USB partitionned disk now results in having to type in the root password due to other users being logged. Of course, it's not a generic issue... It'll probably annoy only me.
