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Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive



On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:32:18PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Chris Henry wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I
> >can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an
> >external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external
> >drive/thumbdrive. 
> 
> If you are using a recent enough version of debian (etch or later),
> just adding the user to the floppy group should be enough.
> 
> # adduser <username> floppy
> 
> Next time the user logs in, plugging in an external drive automatically 
> mounts it.

Only if he is running a DTE that does this.  I never have.  Let them
either run a cli to mount the thing or create a button on their wm icon
tray or an entry in a menu.

Doug.


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