On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:02:54 Thomas Nikolajsen wrote: > Either you can login as root to do the mount / umount, > or you can set sysctl vfs.usermount to a non-zero value. > > This is described in mount.2 manual page; > 'mount -a mount' also shows mount options (mount.8); > we don't have 'user', as you found. > > Please be aware of security consequences if you allow all users to mount.
That would allow all users to mount *anything*, which is not what I want. I want any user to mount the thumb drive, but I certainly don't want any user but root to mount the hard disk. Linux doesn't have vfs.usermount; instead /bin/mount is suid root and checks whether the device and mount point are listed in /etc/fstab as user-mountable. What I actually did (I had a visitor who brought a thumb drive) was mount it as root and then copy files. Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.