Jana Svarova
jana.svarova@gmail.com 2014
Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3756@gmail.com 2014
Prevent the user from changing disk partitions.
Nathan Follens
nfollens@gnome.org 2022.

# Disable repartitioning

polkit enables you to set permissions for individual operations. For udisks2, the utility for disk management services, the configuration is located at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy. This file contains a set of actions and default values, which can be overridden by system administrator.

The polkit configuration in /etc overrides that shipped by packages in /usr/share.

# Disable repartitioning

Create a file with the same content as in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy: cp /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy /etc/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy

Do not change the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy file, your changes will be overwritten by the next package update.

Delete any actions you do not need from within the `policyconfig` element and add the following lines to the /etc/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy file:

<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.modify-device"> <description>Modify the drive settings</description> <message>Authentication is required to modify drive settings</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action>

Replace `no` by `auth_admin` if you want to ensure only the root user is able to carry out the action.

Sla de wijzigingen op.

When the user tries to change the disk settings, the following message is shown: Authentication is required to modify drive settings.