mounting external harddisk with fstab-sync as a non-root user

[Arthur Pemberton]

Didier Casse wrote:

>On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
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>>Didier Casse wrote:
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>>>On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Didier Casse wrote:
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>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>  My FC3 box can recognize my external usb harddisk when I plug it
>>>>>in. In gnome the icons pop up on the desktop but when I try to open it
>>>>>to read it, it tells me that I do not have the permission to do it!!!
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>>>>>I realize that only root can read the /media/whatever_stuff which is mounted.
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>>>>>I would like to enable it for a normal user. How do I do this? Thanks
>>>>>for the help
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>>>>>I mean I don't know the idea behind this but it's kind of silly that
>>>>>only root is able to read an external harddrive.
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>>>>The only root being able to mount external media was in the FC1 early
>>>>FC2 days. I know from experience that this works very well in FC3. Only
>>>>difference is that I use KDE, i doubt however that that is the issue.
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>>>Dear Arthur,
>>>                 It works fine... Everything is correctly mounted but
>>>I have to be root to see the files on my external hard drive. I want
>>>to be able to see the files as a NORMAL USER.
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>>Ok, fair enough. What user are you logged in as when you put in the usb
>>drive? And what user do you use to mount the drive? (I would suggest
>>attempting this at the command promt just incase this is a gnome problem
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>I'm login as myself. normal user. I don't mount it, fstab-sync mounts
>it and it mounts it as root.
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Well sorry. I am really unsure as to the problem. The only difference I 
see between you and I is that for me fstab-sync only creates a 
mount-point, I still have to mount it manually. And this I do as my 
normall uid=500 user.

Goodluck

>>`$ mount usbdrive` 
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>Only root can mount.
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