Automounting flash drives, but can't unmount them?

Hi all, I'm new to Arch after switching from Crunchbang a few days ago.
I've managed to enable automounting for my USB drives with udev and HAL, but when I try to eject them in Nautilus, I get
umount: /media/EMBARQ is not in the fstab (and you are not root)
Is there any way to allow myself to umount a USB drive as a regular user? Using sudo umount /media/XX works fine, but it's a bit irritating to have a shiny new eject button that I can't use.
EDIT: I just use Nautilus as a file manager, and not the full GNOME desktop.
Last edited by schnauzer (2009-11-11 04:24:42)

I've already done that, but no luck. This is what my /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf looks like:
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<!-- This configuration file specifies the required security policies
for the HAL to work. -->
<!-- Only root or user hal can own the HAL service -->
<policy user="hal">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
</policy>
<policy user="root">
<allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
</policy>
<!-- Allow anyone to invoke methods on the Manager and Device interfaces -->
<policy context="default">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" />
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan"/>
</policy>
<!--Allow users of group power and storage to mount/umount-->
<policy group="power">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
</policy>
<policy group="storage">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>
Also,
[schnauzer@wilson ~]$ groups
disk lp wheel video audio optical floppy storage scanner power users
Last edited by schnauzer (2009-11-11 15:47:53)

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