I have a little USB lexar jumpshot compact flash reader that I mount as
a normal user. Here is my fstab entry for the card.
/dev/sda1 /lexar auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
scott
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 01:34, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2001 06:35 am Andrew wrote:
> > drop the umask and suid?
>
> Did that and it doesn't change anything. Still don't know why I can't
> mount my USB camera as a user
> >
> > > On Tuesday 30 October 2001 06:25 am, you wrote:
> > > > change usr to user and add mode=0777
> > > >
> > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd auto
> > > > noauto,user,rw,uid=500,gid=100,mode=0777,umask=002,suid 0 0
>
> Did that originally - Didn't help
>
> Still continue to get the error message, "Only root can mount
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbhd"
>
> Question: Is there some rule in Linux that only root can mount a
> /dev/something ?? Even if the ownership on the device is changed
> to someone other than root?
>
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