Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:10:16 -0500 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> Subject: Re: "User" mount of usb "key" drive ... question Message-ID: <200610252110.17582.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200610251918.41383.lane@joeandlane.com> References: <200610251918.41383.lane@joeandlane.com>
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:18, Lane wrote: > 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. Lane, I think you'll find this link educational. http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ HTH, David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.
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