Just a quick question: is it normal in XFCE4 that it doesn't want to mount local partitions [say - other OS, data, etc] from the desktop by double clicking an icon? For me it will always request a root password. If that is a normal thing [in a "design" sense"] then I'm perfectly OK with this. I do know about polkit, hal and such, but I'm interrested in the defaults.

Currently I use Debian, but I've seen that kind of behavior on Arch, Slackware, etc. Of course I do know that some highly "user-end' distros prefer to provide  user with comfort of easy mounting in favor of security. That's not what I want to know. I'm interrested in absolute basic XFCE4 approach: does it allow, or disallow local partition mounting by regular users by default?

Thanks for any help!

PS I think XFCE4 is absolutely great and uber-fantastic. I use it for many years now, but still ... I used to hack around the things without really asking myself about the basic, default policy.

Best regards!

- marc