Re: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account
On 06/19/2011 01:30 AM, John Mollman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy with a
> normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the 'plugdev' group
> with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that doesn't seem to
> work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash drive as root
> using Thunar.
>
try
$john groups
That will show you the groups you are in.
> I am running Openbox with tint2, and I start them with the 'startx'
> command with the .xinitrc file. Could there possibly be an issue from
> that? Possibly with udisks or udev? Any ideas on what I should? I'm
> thinking about doing another reinstall but I highly doubt that would
> fix this issue.
I don't think so. I run fluxbox the same way as you and it is working
ok there.
Take a look at the pmount package.
HTH
Wayne
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