# How to mount drives without password?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-mount-drives-without-password/23432 "2022-01-31T05:17:44Z")\
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> [@archisman](#):
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> In both Ubuntu and Manjaro, it is possible to mount a partition in the file manager without password

I think this is similar to what you have in mind:

> [@Password authentication when mounting drives in Thunar](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/password-authentication-when-mounting-drives-in-thunar/17812):
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> I just decided to swith to EnOS on my main PC (hurray! grin) Anyway, I am just ironing out some rough edges that I didn’t know existed on my previous distros. For example now when I want to mount internal HDD in Thunar it requires a password. Is it possible to find out how is this action handled and modifies so that I do not need a password? Where should I start looking? Full time mount in fstab is possible but I would rather keep it unmounted in case I do something stupid with rm -rf …

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