On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:02 -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > Hi, > > I just got an iAudio X5 (awesome player, return your iPods...;). Its a UMD, > so when I plug it in, the following entry automagically appears in > my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/IAUDIO vfat > pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,managed 0 0 > > The problem is that only root can mount it, and furthermore, when root > mounts it, root owns it and thus whoever I'm logged in as can't write to > it. > > Whats even more weird is that if I edit that fstab entry to have the 'users' > options, I still can't mount it as a normal user. > > Anyways, what I want is for the device to automatically be mounted when its > plugged in and I want the owner to be whoever is logged into KDE at the > moment. Is that possible or too much to ask? > > Thank you very much for the help. > Chris, I don't know answer to your question but the player seems very attractive! Thank you for mentioning it :) Also, one useful thing about mount is that you can use -o uid=<userid>,gid=<groupid> options, so that even if it is mounted by root, it will be owned by <userid> you specified. Thanks, Adil
