Hello BillK, I guess, that you are looking for the mount option "user":
/etc/fstab
/dev/sdx /<some_path> ext4 noauto,user,relatime 0 2
In this way, I can mount "/dev/sdx" with an unprivileged user:
$ mount /<some_path>
See also "man 8 mount" ("Non-superuser mounts").
I am not sure, if this also works with "automount" from "net-fs/autofs",
if this is what you meant with "automounter".
-Ramon On 01/04/2021 06:51, William Kenworthy wrote:
Hi, I use a sata drive caddy with 2Tb hard disks for offline backups. Almost everytime (within sessions are ok?) it asks for a password before automounting. This is just annoying and has no security benefit in my environment (why just hard disks when USB keys and SD cards don't ask for one?). So, how can I disable the automounter asking for a password either in general, or just for my backup drives? BillK
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