I am having a problem with the permissions for a sd card

I have to mount it under root (/mnt/sdcard) but when I try to change the permissions so I can access it under a user ID, the permissions return to the default. I added this dir to the "permission" control panel but still doesn't allow me to change them. How do I get access to the mounted folder without using root?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank you

Hi there

This sounds like the access configurations for the mounted device in /etc/fstab. The fstab file provides information on which device should be attached to mount point. Often you will find entries that look thus

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy noauto 0, 0

The above says for dev/fd0 attach it to mnt/floppy in the file system, but do not do this automatically and the two numbers (Try man fstab form info about that).

now your sd-card, probably has a similar entry. what you need to do is enable user access thus
e.g
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy noauto,users 0, 0

So it should look something like this

/dev/sd-card /mnt/sd-card noauto,users 0,0

check the man pages for more info on fstab

HTH Ugly..