Trouble with mounting USB stick as user

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:46:37 -0600
Michael Ekstrand <lists at elehack.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:40:04 +1100
> Rob <rbyrnes at mailshack.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone shed some light on what is happening here?
> 
> AFAIK, only root can mount things under FreeBSD, period. I could be
> wrong on this... but I looked around a while ago for something to do
> the job of the Linux 'user' option, and found nothing. I kinda remember
> trying changing permissions too.
> 
> If I'm wrong, I'd love to be corrected :-).

	Ask and ye shall receive :)

sysctl vfs.usermount=1

	Will enable users to mount devices *provided* that they own the
mount point and have access to the device node.

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