Trouble with mounting USB stick as user
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Wed Feb 8 10:48:41 PST 2006
martinko wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > To enable user mounts, there are three conditions:
> > 1. sysctl vfs.usermount=1
> > 2. The user must have read+write permission on the device
> > which is to be mounted. This is usually accomplished
> > by creating a special group for this device.
> > 3. The user must _own_ the mountpoint (r/w permission is
> > not sufficient).
>
> [...]
> $ ll /dev/ad0
> crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 96 Feb 8 18:27 /dev/ad0
Condition #2 isn't met: The device must be "rw" for for
the user (in this case for the operator group). Note
that "r" is not sufficient, even for read-only mounts.
Best regards
Oliver
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