Re: Captiva USB MP3 Player support?
Hi!
Have you tried pmount:
pmount - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user
Cheers,
Kaj
On 7/16/05, Dom <debian.dom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/05, wim <wimpunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dom wrote:
> > > I've searched and searchd for the module for this device without
> > > success. But I wouldn't have searched if the next thing hadn't
> > > happened...
> > >
> > > I was able to mount the usb drive easily in root, but when my brother
> > > tried to use it in his account we discovered only root can mount a
> > > device.
> > >
> > > Is there any way I can secure access to this device from accounts
> > > other than root?
> > >
> > > And yes, giving my brother the root password is a no no.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > Dom
> >
> > You can use "sudo" of put a "user" option in /etc/fstab or mount the
> > device with "uid" option.
> >
> > wim.
> >
> >
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>
> OK, here's how my fstab fiel looks like but I still can't mount from
> any non-root user account (I get the message: "mount: only root can do
> that")
>
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda2 /localdisk ext3 defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>
> Sorry if it's something obvious, but as a new user of Linux I can't
> see why "user" option won't work here.
> Oh, one more thing to mention is (I thought this is understandable)
> that this USB device is not plugged in at the boot - or does it have
> to be (but I tried it and even when it is plugged in while the PC
> boots the same thing happens)?
>
> Thanks,
> Dom
>
>
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