Thread: Calibre on linux: root password for unmounting?
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Old 02-03-2011, 05:22 PM   #13
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Good, then I'm happy to help. Unmounting in calibre happens in two stages

1) calibre tries to use udisks

2) If udisks is not available a setuid root executable calibre_mount_helper is used which simply calls eject

Most likely automounting on your system happens in a way that causes udisks to prompt you for permission.
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