I have used Mint 18.3 Cinnamon happily for some months now. Beside standard partitions, I have 3 spinning disc additional data partitions in fstab and they have always mounted at start-up as required, till today, after a break of a few days. The system works as before but the three additional partitions, although shown in the File Manager list on the left, when selected, trigger a message:
Authentication is required to mount ST.......(/dev/sdd5)
followed by a prompt for Password for root, which fails every time though the password works elsewhere just fine.
Selecting Details shows
Action: org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system (which leads nowhere)
Vendor: The udisks Project (which leads to a repo which is beyond me)
I don't knowingly have or use any authentication and don't really want to interrupt my current project to involve it.
I have installed and used many LINUX systems and kept them going over many years (without having Windows or MAC), but am at a loss as to what this means. Google has thrown up little. Please help with a remedy or work-around.
[SOLVED] Suddenly asked for Authentication
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[SOLVED] Suddenly asked for Authentication
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Re: Suddenly asked for Authentication
Embarrassing! I found that it is not a mounting issue, but somehow I was no longer in the sudo group!
Rectified that in recovery mode and all is well.
Now off to another topic to explore how that happened
Rectified that in recovery mode and all is well.
Now off to another topic to explore how that happened