If user has sudo rights (is in admin group) then pmount (gnome-vfs) should allow him to mount hard disk partitions - if there is an icon in my Computer:// it should be mountable and pmount has to mount non-removable media on request in this case. This is especially important on Live-cd.
-- pmount should not refuse to mount nonremovable drives without fstab entry https://launchpad.net/bugs/48118 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs