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Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive



On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:49:54PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.

pmount can help.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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