A security policy prevents non-local users to mount USB volumes on RHEL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Error found when USB flash device is plugged in using KDE desktop and logged in as a network user (LDAP user).

"A security policy in place prevents this  sender from sending  this message to this recipient, see message bus  configuration file  (rejected message had interface  “org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume”  member “Mount” error name “(unset)”  destination “org.freedesktop.Hal”)"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x

  • kdesdk-3.5.4-3.el5-x86_64

  • hal-0.5.8.1-38.el5-x86_64

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