Mount USB Stick (Solved), SSHD (Solved), Root Logon (Still open)

Question

Sorry this is about 3 problems:
1. Already for longer time I can not login as root on one computer on the console. This machine has no X as it is a server. Access via SSH and console logon as other user works. One logged on I can use SU or sudo for root actions. There was a similar thread over here, which didn't help.
/etc/securetty:
# /etc/securetty
console
tty/1
tty/2
tty/3
tty/4
tty/5
tty/6
# End of file
Recent update related problems:
Updated files:
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded kernel-headers (2.6.30.5-1 -> 2.6.31.4-1)
[2009-10-29 08:51] Generating locales...
[2009-10-29 08:51]   de_DE.UTF-8... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   en_US.UTF-8... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   zh_CN.UTF-8... done
[2009-10-29 08:51]   zh_CN.GB2312... done
[2009-10-29 08:51] Generation complete.
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded glibc (2.10.1-4 -> 2.10.1-5)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded binutils (2.19.1-5 -> 2.20-1)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded gcc-libs (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.2-2)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded xulrunner (1.9.1.3-2 -> 1.9.1.4-1)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded firefox (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded gcc (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.2-2)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded libatasmart (0.16-1 -> 0.17-1)
[2009-10-29 08:51] upgraded openntpd (3.9p1-7 -> 3.9p1-8)
[2009-10-29 08:52] Updating font cache... done.
[2009-10-29 08:52] installed ttf-freefont (20090104-2)
[2009-10-29 08:52] upgraded vlc (1.0.2-3 -> 1.0.2-4)
2. SSH logon does not work anymore. Another thread solved the proble by creating a /var/empty directory and restart sshd. This works, so the solution is confirmed.
3. Mount of USB media does not work as user although the user is in the storage group. In fact it worked before.
Mount as root by hand works, but in case of VFAT media without acl there is no way to access the media by user other than root.
Umount of course also need root rights in this case.
I'm using HAL and the message mentions "permission denied by policy"
Last edited by jcci (2009-10-31 04:23:33)

Answer 1

I've got some kind of problems with removable media too. My solution was to edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
I don't remember what i've changed there, so this is my file, maybe this will help:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject-removable">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</config>