On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:21:17PM -0400, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> My camera, cell phone and USB pendrives that used to mount without
> trouble under Debian now give an error "Not authorized" and I have
> to launch a Pcmanfm as root to access them. Lucky I learned this
> morning how to launch a prog as root from the CLI.. ....
>
> Why did the configuration change ?

I seem to remember that that was discussed some ttime ago in connexion
with systemd. It's a change in Debian that was mitigated there by
something obscure added into systemd. One more entanglemment.

>
> How can I restore it ?


I don't recall what we decided hould be done about it. Perhaps a prog
launched as root ...

But I don't recall any specific programs being promoted.

-- hendrik