I'm not really a fan of automount, but I understand that lots of people are. I'm trying to get it fully functional under mdev, and then do a write-up on the wiki page. A Google search turns up lots of examples of code. However, the examples are for embedded devices, and they assume the only user is root. I've got the automounting and autounmounting working. Everybody can read the mounted USB stick, but only root can write. I've tried pmount with the umask option, but it doesn't help. Assume the scrpt gets passed MDEV="sdb1"
# # Create the directory in /media mkdir -p /media/${MDEV} # # Change permissions to allow read+write by all chmod 777 /media/${MDEV} # # Mount the directory in /media pmount --noatime --umask 000 /dev/${MDEV} But after the mount... user2@aa1 /media $ ll total 3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 May 22 19:02 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 May 21 20:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 May 16 01:42 sdb1 Every directory and file belongs to user:group root:root. On the USB stick all directories are 755 and files are 744. As a heavy-handed ugly hack, I could... chgrp -R users /media/${MDEV} chmod -R g+w /media/${MDEV} to a USB stick. I obviously don't wnt to do that on the external USB drive that I rsync my system to every few weeks. Any ideas? And oh yes, I do realize I'm trying to re-invent the wheel. The old one has a broken udev :( -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>