[olug] Mounting Flash Drives as a user

[Adam Lassek]

You might want to check out http://ivman.sourceforge.net/
It does lots of cool stuff besides just mounting drives in userspace.

On 10/23/05, Don E. Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if there is a way to mount flash devices as a user --
> not as root. Failing that I'd like to know if there is a way that one
> can mount and unmount without having to be root. I'm using Suse 9.3.
>
> I've tried unmounting it and remounting as my user but then it's not
> accessible to write. Do I need to chown and chmod that directory? I
> don't want to make changes with out at least bouncing it off this list.
>
> It's a pain having to be root just to enter a simple command. (yes, I
> know there are reasons but . .. .) I can use and am using sudo to do
> this.
>
> Now ubuntu allows me to mount and unmount it as a regular user which
> makes me think that something isn't setup right in my SUSe system. Or
> maybe something is wrong in my Ubuntu system . . . . :-)
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Don K.
> --
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