Hello all, for a while, I was curious why EndeavourOS and most non-Ubuntu based distributions required the use of the administrative password to be able to access a Windows partition. A more advanced user on Reddit explained the differences between the management of disks on EOS and Ubuntu. However, although EOS being a minimal and terminal-centric distribution, I think it would just be a sane default to not have to constantly type in an administrator password to access a Windows Drive from the file explorer. If someone may know why this isn’t the case or could give me an explanation as to why it shouldn’t be, I’m welcome to hear it. I just thought it would be a convenient solution.
You can mount disks as a user using Udisks.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks#Usage
Usage
To manually mount a removable drive, for example
/dev/sdc:$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdc1To unmount:
$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdc1See
udisksctl helpfor more.