On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 17:20:34 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 20:38:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > > > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > > > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must > > > use root to copy files and delete files from the drive. > > > So, how can I mount and have permission to delete, copy and move files > > > on my usb drive from my standard user account? > > > > Install the "pmount" package and add your user to the "plugdev" group. > > That's what I did, its a nice package and does the job well, do I need > to use normal mount as root though if I want to run scripts and > programs? > For some reason I couldn't run a /bin/sh script on my external hard > drive when it was mounted with pmount.
That is probably due to the drive being mounted "noexec" by default (as a security measure against scripts and programs on untrusted media). I think you can use pmount -e ... to override the default and mount the drive with "exec" enabled. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
