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 ?
>
> How can I restore it ?
>

I think it might just be associations of your user to groups, e.g.,
plugdev.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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