Udev and fstab - beginners question

Sat Oct 2 18:37:58 UTC 2004

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:01:18PM +0100, malcolm wrote:
> Since this is my home PC I want anyone to be able to mount usb-mp3
> players, DVDs, CDRW etc. I used to do this by just bunging 'users' in
> the fstab options. Now something ( udev or whatever )  overwrites it on
> every boot and then I get the message 'only root can mount etc etc' -
> How do I make it so that everyone and their dog can mount anything. 

It is supposed to be plug-and-play... a user logged in locally to the 
console should just be able to plug something in and have it mount 
automatically, with icons appearing on the desktop, etc.