Hotplug (running as root) mounts my usb drive, so only root can umount it. Is there any way I can allow the normal user to umount it?
I do have the "user" option in /etc/fstab, but that's only useful if the user mounted it in the first place.
Can you add the "users" option instead? It will allow any user to mount/umount the device.
That appears to be it. Your comment inspired me to read the man page more carefully:
user: The name of the mounting user is written to mtab so that he can unmount the file system again
users: Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system.
This is a subtlety that had previously eluded me.
Thanks, Douglas.
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