Supermount -- Advisable?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jul 5 07:08:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 01:54 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > > Is it advisable to add supermount to the removable drives (CDRom, zip 
> > > drive and floppy)? If so, how do I do it?
> > 
> > What are you actually trying to do?
> 
> So I can automatically mount a data CD or Zip drive as user 
> without having to type a command as root in the terminal. The 
> command works fine. Just wondering if supermount is available 
> and advisable. Some years back, I was using Mandrake and it 
> came with supermount.

You shouldn't need it. Removable media *should* be automatically mounted
with suitable permissions for the currently-logged-in-user on the
console. If that's not happening, there's something wrong.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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