From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 01:24:57 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 4D94A16A403 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:24:57 +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 7557143D66 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:24:54 +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 1GctzJ-0008I8-SR for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:24:54 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9Q1RdfC075800 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:27:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9Q1RdCJ075799 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:27:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:27:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <453FEAB3.9030409@bigfoot.com> <200610252001.38136.lane@joeandlane.com> <200610252107.28213.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <200610252107.28213.nb_root@videotron.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610252027.39135.lane@joeandlane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79a4df92db55464de9182496d2f871e03c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: Re: "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 01:24:57 -0000 On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:07, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Thanks, Paul > > > > I had a similar setup in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/devfs.rules which didn't > > work. > > > > I copied yours and then rebooted, but I still get "operation not > > permitted" when attempting to mount the usb drive as a non-root user. > > > > Thanks for your attention. > > > > lane > > Do you have this in your /etc/sysctl.conf : > vfs.usermount=1 Ahhh... I just found that! Plus, apparently the user must own the mount point. It works now. Thanks again for all of your help! lane