umount as root only? option to turn off?

[Guest chibislick]

Anyway to enable all user to umount a usb device? I always get this "you are not root user.."

 

thanks,

 

Chibi Slick

[SoulSe]

Add it to your /etc/fstab file with the "user" extension, with a line something like this:

/dev/sda1      /mnt/usb     auto      noauto,user        0 0

 

...although I'm sure Mandriva might have a GUI to help you out, but I haven't use it in ages.

[papaschtroumpf]

You can also use sudo with wildcards (for example I have a number of ISOs that the usert can mount using sudo, and rather than list every one of them in fstab, I have a generic sudo command that allows mounting an iso from a specific directory).

[Guest chibislick]

SoulSe,

 

it does not work very well. It add an icon with a bogus directory that I can't access. When I plug in a usb device it adds another one with the data.

 

Papas,

 

You have an exemple of tha? I'd like to see. thanks!

 

 

Any other ideas?

 

I could simply add this to the fstab:

 

/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0

 

 

but the "hostX" part just keeps incrementing everytime I insert/remove a device.. :(

 

 

any ideas?

[arthur]

try to install udev:

 

root@localhost # urpmi udev

and then in MCC->services, enable it to start at boot.

hopefully that will stop hostX from incrementing every time.