Trouble with mounting USB stick as user
Michael Ekstrand
lists at elehack.net
Thu Feb 9 06:35:47 PST 2006
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:27:12 +0100 (CET)
Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> 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).
Excellent :-).
I now have my USB flash stick mounting as my regular user (and thanks
to [LoN]Kamikaze for the devfs.rules hints).
> Of course, an alternative is to use sudo (ports/security/sudo)
> or super (ports/security/super, which prefer).
That's what I've been doing, but it doesn't play so well with a GUI
file manager. Of course, some provide the option to use
sudo/gksu/whatever, but not ROX at this point AFAIK.
Again, thanks all for pleasantly proving me wrong :-).
- Michael
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