Yay! Points to Alan Cox for pointing the right direction. I added <match user="tomh"> <return result="yes"/> </match> to the <policyconfig> section of /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/hal- storage.policy, and now it works! (I'm enabling, not disabling.) On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:11 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have no such file (/usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/hal-storage.policy) > > or its directory on my f8 machine. What does that mean? > > Beats me. It is part of the hal package on FC8 so should be present with > any graphical desktop installed > Dr. Tom -- Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed. Thus spoke Zarathustra.