Second Disk Always Asks for Password when Logging in. I have been trying advice from webpage after page.
My scenario is that I had Bazzite KDE installed. OS on SSD and game files on a HDD. I got fed up with being blocked by bazzite from fixing things; so I decided to wipe it and start fresh with Fedora KDE. This computer is just my experiment computer to learn and evaluate. Building a gaming PC and will be using Linux on there. So far it feels free and open compared to bazzite. Not going back. I did not do anything with the HDD. I checked the permissions for it and think itâs all fine. Steam is fine with it and I can use it just fine. But After setting known devices to be auto mounted I now have it asking for PW every-time I login. Not a deal breaker but would be nice if it were just available. As mentioned above I have tried half a dozen webpages of related advice given to others but either they donât work for my setup or I am not understanding. Linux is new to me after moving away from MacOS. So could someone work through this with me so I can learn and fix issue.
I used System settings Disks & Cameras and set Device Auto-Mount to All known devices mount on login and Attach. I checked that when it is mounted itâs in that list ant checked. thatâs working. just ddisk still needs to be unlocked. I donât recall it being encrypted unless Bazzite did it by default. I never had to autherise it in that version of Fedora.
I looked at a couple of chown solusions but i couldnât get them to work. i suspect that was on my limited understanding. They didnât elaborate on anything so tried some what seemed like logical alterations but didnât understand. man lists confuse me also. not loked at the man for chown.
I looked at the doc for chown and it clarified something. I was seeing $user:$user on webpages but it looks like they should have written it as $user:$group ?? I had tried
previously and again just now with no effect on my issue. I checked that the permissions info for the Storage is user=ekdor and group=ekdor. Running that it seems to pause for a bit as if it did something. It ends with a blank prompt and no info about what happened good or badâŚ
ok I tried that. again it appears to do something, as in there was a wait and then a valid prompt. But on a reboot the password prompt popped up immediately after login.
For other reasons, I now donât have much on it. So not too much hassle to do that. Itâs currently ext4. yes only used locally on this system. It would be a good opportunity for me to get slightly familiar, Since this is just an assessment build and wont be the end of the world if I stuff it.
As an alternative to using auto-mount, you could instead configure the system to mount this drive on boot (i.e. it gets mounted as root before you log in, and your user account and password are not involved).
You could do this either by:
manually editing /etc/fstab
using the KDE Partition Manager app (right-click on the partition in question and choose âEdit Mount Pointâ
Iâll check this out after I reformatting. My thought it maybe my (former) Bazzite install formatted it as root access and not everyone. Noticing that it handles lots of things differently to Fedora Desktop (using/used KDE on both). For my experience itâs worth trying anyway.
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