Device auto-mount on login asking for password. Bug?

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Hello.

I have recently upgraded from Fedora 42 KDE to Fedora 43 KDE and found that my USB stick that I always leave connected on my PC was not mounting automatically anymore. I then went into the System Settings and on Device Auto-Mount, I marked both “On Login” and “On Attach” options. But after restarting I got prompted to enter my password to mount the USB stick. The thing is: I already had to log in through SDDM so I don’t see the sense in asking for my user password once again. And if I just hit “Cancel” on the prompt and use either Dolphin or the System Tray to mount the USB stick, I can do it without being asked for a password at all. Could this be a bug?

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It could be but there is more than just KDE that goes into the ability to mount devices.

I would start by reporting the issue to Fedora.

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I have to be honest, this sounds a little vague. Is there some troubleshooting I could do to discover whether this is KDE-specific or Fedora-specific? I don’t mind figuring out how to report this as a bug. But I’m firstly not sure if it is a bug or intended behavior and maybe they will tell me to report it to KDE instead.

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I guess you could do things like compare the udev rules between F42 and F43. It is also could be a bug in some other package and not KDE itself. Of course, it could be a KDE bug too.

But I really think you should triage it with Fedora first.

They shouldn’t do that without triaging it first. I don’t think you will get a blind, “report it upstream” unless they have already determined it is a KDE issue. Even then, I suspect they would open an upstream issue and link the Fedora issue to it.

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I just tested this in Aurora Linux and it did auto-mount the device without using a password.

Here is the version information there:

KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
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I opened a bug report for Fedora. I guess this topic should be closed