Monday 8 November 2010
Password protecting the mounting of NTFS drives in Ubuntu
You might want to password protect the mounting process of the NTFS drives in your ubuntu OS for the purpose of privacy...
Enabling password protection is not hard stuff enough. Just follow the following instructions for this:
- Open the terminal and type:
- Just comment by adding # at the beginning of each line in the first four lines or all the lines above the line [Change CPU Frequency scaling] i.e. upto the line ResultActive=yes
- Now save the file and whenever you try to mount the NTFS drives under ubuntu, it will prompt you for the pasword.
Enabling password protection is not hard stuff enough. Just follow the following instructions for this:
- Open the terminal and type:
sudo gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla
- Just comment by adding # at the beginning of each line in the first four lines or all the lines above the line [Change CPU Frequency scaling] i.e. upto the line ResultActive=yes
- Now save the file and whenever you try to mount the NTFS drives under ubuntu, it will prompt you for the pasword.
Bookmark this post: | 
|
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)