[plug] Console User - Mount

[John Summerfield]

> 
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Bradley Browne wrote:
> 
> > Is there some way to make the icons in KDE for the cdrom and floppy user
> > un-mountable ?  By this I mean that I can ATM mount the drives but I cannot
> > 
> > While on the subject of consoles, is there some other way for me to make co
> nsole
> > users able to access the mount and umount ability of some drives versus oth
> ers,
> > other than to change that group with chgrp ?  I have tried to do this via

Install and configure autofs. Devices & partitions are mounted when 
referenced - I use it for my OS/2 hpfs partitions - and unmount  short 
time (configurable) after falling idle.



> Gday Brad. I can't help with the KDE side of things but it is certainly
> possible for users to be able to mount and unmount drives as specified by
> you. There is a tool called 'usermount' that will let you do this on the
> drives you mark as user mountable within linuxconf. I think this tool is
> in the package 'usermode' but I am not sure of this.

An appropriate entry in /etc/fstab does it. These devices are user 
mountable:
/dev/fd0                  /mnt/floppy               ext2   
noauto,user,noexec,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda1                 /mnt/mo                   auto   user 1 2



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