Trouble with mounting USB stick as user

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Wed Feb 8 11:09:13 PST 2006


Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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.

sure. but why did it mount /usr/home/mato/mnt/dos then ??

> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 
> PS:  Please respect the "Reply-To:" header.  I do read
> the mailing list (via an NNTP gateway) and do _not_ want
> to get superfluous copies in my mailbox.

i'm sorry.

> 

cheers,

martin



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