Trouble with mounting USB stick as user

martinko martinkov at pobox.sk
Wed Feb 8 13:28:10 PST 2006


Oliver Fromme wrote:
> martinko <martinkov at pobox.sk> wrote:
>  > 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 ??
> 
> Maybe /dev/ad0s1 had different permissions?
> 

$ ls -la /dev/ad0*
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  96 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  97 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  98 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  99 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s3
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 101 Feb  8 19:27 /dev/ad0s3a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 102 Feb  8 19:27 /dev/ad0s3b
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 103 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s3c
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 104 Feb  8 19:27 /dev/ad0s3d
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 105 Feb  8 19:27 /dev/ad0s3e
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 106 Feb  8 19:27 /dev/ad0s3f
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 100 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s4
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 107 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s5
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 108 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s6
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 109 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s7
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 110 Feb  8 18:27 /dev/ad0s8



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