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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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