On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:19:32 -0400 fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 03:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [snip] > >> What you really want is for anyone in a certain group to be able to > >> write to it. I used group "floppy", because a USB drive is a pretty > >> good analog to a floppy, and floppies aren't even used much > >> anymore. So do the mount like this: > >> > >> mount -o gid=floppy,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/thumb > >> > >> or > >> > >> mount -o gid=floppy,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1 > > This did not work for me: > > $ mount -o gid=floppy,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/thumb > mount: only root can use "--options" option I misspoke myself. You still have to be root to perform the preceding command. That's a matter for /etc/sudoers. Once you've performed the preceding command *as root*, any user in group floppy can write to the thumb drive. But you still have to be root to do the mount. [snip] > I like pmount for mounting usb devices. It's pretty smart. For > removable devices, you don't need to list them in /etc/pmount.allow, > and it handles encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup/luks). As I remember, pmount works well and doesn't depend on any graphical environment. As such, as long as it's likely to stick around, perhaps I'll stop trying to write my own. I had forgotten about pmount, or perhaps figured it would be absorbed by the poettermonster. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng