User Privileges

[Thomas Kuehner]

Hi John

why don't you use 'sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memstick' using your=20
regular user password when asked for?

Your username may have to be added to /etc/sudoers before using a copy=20=

from the root entry to allow you to use 'sudo'.

Simply enter 'su' in the terminal and enter you root password.

Then type 'pico /etc/sudoers &' and add the entry. Hit Cntrl-X and give=20=

a 'Y' for yes and you are done.

Good luck!

Thomas



On Freitag, Januar 23, 2004, at 07:28  Uhr, Andriy Rysin wrote:

> John Kebbel wrote:
>
>> My /etc/fstab file reads ...
>>
>> /dev/sdb1	/mnt/memstick	msdos	noauto,user,exec,nodev	0	=
0
>>
>> for the flash drive, but when I type mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memstick as
>> myself, I get this message ...
>>
>> mount: only root can do that
>>
> I guess you should be able to do that as a user with "mount=20
> /mnt/memstick", 'cause "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memstick" is priveleged=20=

> command.
>
> Andriy
>
>>
>> If I switch to root, or logout and log back in as root, I can type =
the
>> command and access the drive. The same is true for the zip disk, =
which
>> reads in fstab as
>> /dev/sda4	/mnt/zip	msdos	noauto,user,rw	0	0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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