"User" mount of usb "key" drive ... question

[David J Brooks]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:18, Lane wrote:
> I guess I don't know how to ask google and "man fstab" the correct way ...
>
> How can I grant a non-root user the authority to mount (and then write to)
> a usb "key" drive? Especially when said user is already "up in" kde?
>
> The drive works fine if "root" mounts it, but I'd rather not be root when I
> do this on my laptop.  And opening a konsole window, "su"ing and then
> mounting , is cumbersome.
>
> I've been looking at "man devfs.rules," as this seems to be near the place
> I want to be.  But I haven't quite fingered out a way...
>
> Ya'll don't gotta just tell me the answer, if you don't want.  I'm a "man"
> man, so to speak.  I'm eager to look it up myself, only I don't rightly
> know whereinaheck to look.

Lane,

I think you'll find this link educational.
http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/

HTH,
David
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