[SOLVED] fstab ignores user option (Debian Squeeze)
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The "user" option qualifies who can mount the filesystem, not how it is mounted.
Also, if your distro uses PolicyKit, the mount command may not be suid root and the system may rely on udev/hal/polkit to control who can mount or umount partitions, by changing the acl on the device node.
On my system (openSuSE) the system is setup where a usb drive is automounted unless there is an entry in /etc/fstab.
On Ubuntu, the system edits the /etc/fstab entry dynamically.
Thanks for replying.
usbmount and pmount are already running on my machine. man pmount gives:
POLICY
The mount will succeed if all of the following conditions are met:
· device is a block device in /dev/
· device is not in /etc/fstab (if it is, pmount executes mount device as the calling user to handle this transparently). See below for more details.
so pmount won't handle devices having an entry in fstab, but the latter is exactly what I want.
Update: have cracked it. I can umount as a user after replacing option `user' with `users' in fstab:
UUID=b122b277-e085-4f50-9ddf-051efd89e
/media/usbhd ext3 noauto,users,rw,exec,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
though it's not clear why this is so. The `user' option should have been fine.
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