Re: mount partitions as normal user?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 17:20:34 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 20:38:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the
> > > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo.
> > > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must
> > > use root to copy files and delete files from the drive.
> > > So, how can I mount and have permission to delete, copy and move files
> > > on my usb drive from my standard user account?
> > 
> > Install the "pmount" package and add your user to the "plugdev" group.
> 
> That's what I did, its a nice package and does the job well, do I need
> to use normal mount as root though if I want to run scripts and
> programs?
> For some reason I couldn't run a /bin/sh script on my external hard
> drive when it was mounted with pmount.

That is probably due to the drive being mounted "noexec" by default (as
a security measure against scripts and programs on untrusted media).

I think you can use

pmount -e ...

to override the default and mount the drive with "exec" enabled.

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