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

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Didier Casse wrote:

> On 4/20/05, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Didier Casse wrote:
> > > Only root can mount.
> >
> > Not if the user option is used in fstab.
> >
>
> Well you come back to my original question. How to specify a user
> option? If I do it manually in fstab, next time I plug in my external
> hard disk, it's only ROOT which can read it!

Perhaps udev is responsible.
In that case, I  think you would need to modify a
file in the /etc/udev/permissions.d directory.

> And it's said in fstab that it's fstab-sync that just modified it!

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