From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 02:10:21 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 77CD916A47B for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:10:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CC643D5E for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:10:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-74-69.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-74-69.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.74.69]) by ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9Q2AIlj020570; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:10:19 -0500 (CDT) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:10:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200610251918.41383.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <200610251918.41383.lane@joeandlane.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610252110.17582.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: Lane 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 02:10:21 -0000 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.