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Re: can't umount automounted drives



On 02/02/11 15:08, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:45:47 +0000
> Dom<toyer@rpdom.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 02/02/11 04:28, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've got udev and automount working very nicely, EXCEPT,
>>> regular users can't umount the mounted device.
>>>
>>> the strangest thing is that I'm sure I had it working at some point
>>> such that regular users COULD umount.
>>>
>>> The fstab has the user keyword in it.
>>>
>>> Strangely passing user in the automount mount options doesn't seem
>>> to help.
>>>
>>> Any ideas ?
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried putting "users" instead of "user" in the fstab or
>> automount options?
>>
>> This means any user can unmount the filesystem, not just the one who
>> mounted it.
>
> you are, of course, correct.

I suppose everyone has to right at least once in their life ;-)

>
> Nothing like having egg on your face archived in the mailing list for
> all time :-(

Done that myself quite a few times :-(

> Thank you,

Don't mention it.

Dom


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