Root access removed

[Nigel Wade]

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 09:32, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>/etc/fstab controls the access when mounting.   Configure it there to
>>allow the user to mount/unmount and access it.
> 
> 
> Ok, so I configure the memstick today, which is /dev/sda1.  I have the proper 
> options in fstab to allow the user to do that.  Now, the user plugs in a  
> camera (that is managed by usb-storage), it gets /dev/sda, and then he plugs 
> in the memstick (which gets /dev/sdb).  Now what?  Tomorrow he adds a USB 
> hard drive (already partitioned and formatted, BTW).  Now what?

If it's for a user who only wants it to play like Windows, let kudzu do it.
When you plug in the USB device hotplug and kudzu create an entry for it in 
/etc/fstab. In the case of my CF reader its called /mnt/flash.

The user doesn't need to care whether that's going to mount /dev/sda1 or 
/dev/sdg99.

For the terminally Windows oriented you can mount it from the desktop by 
right-clicking and selecting "Disks->flash".


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