From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 00:15:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6008C16A40F for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62C543D53 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:15:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Gcsua-0001SA-PX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:15:56 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9Q0If8G074750 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:18:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9Q0IfaZ074749 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:18:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:18:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610251918.41383.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79d7017f9ab83e086aa55bcbc08b64bdc8350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: "User" mount of usb "key" drive ... question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:15:58 -0000 I guess I don't know how to ask google and "man fstab" the correct way ... How can I grant a non-root user the authority to mount (and then write to) a usb "key" drive? Especially when said user is already "up in" kde? The drive works fine if "root" mounts it, but I'd rather not be root when I do this on my laptop. And opening a konsole window, "su"ing and then mounting , is cumbersome. I've been looking at "man devfs.rules," as this seems to be near the place I want to be. But I haven't quite fingered out a way... Ya'll don't gotta just tell me the answer, if you don't want. I'm a "man" man, so to speak. I'm eager to look it up myself, only I don't rightly know whereinaheck to look. Thanks, lane