Comment 8 for bug 465054

While it could be suggested that careful editing the appropriate line /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy could achieve the same result in karmic, the lucid 'fix' seems better and cleaner .

Not to mention that injudicious editing of the files in actions can lead to unintended results and shouldn't be encouraged

The patch for lucid ( creation of a file in /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d 0) seems to also work in karmic, have done so here with the intended correct result and with no apparent ill effects ( though could stand to be corrected by those who know better if need be.