On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:42 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root? ---- that should be automatic as long as you are runlevel 5 and logged in as a user. It should automatically mount in /media/SOME_DEVICE_NAME_LIKE_USB_DISK One you muck in /etc/fstab - all bets are off. Craig