Hello,

I am using Slackware 13.0 and i have managed to work with my USB pen-drive as root but i cannot do it as a normal user. Can you please help?

Regards,
M

Look at your /etc/fstab file, and where your pendrive is and look at the options section. Try changing it from owner to users, and ro to rw and see if that helps.

Well, i do not have such entry line, here is my /etc/fstab :


/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext4 defaults 1 1
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Oh yea, probably because of udev,

If you are running Slackware-13; did you also add your username in the /etc/group ?

I think there should be a udev entry in there, also don't forgot to add yourself to the wheel group.

Hope that helps.

Are you in the "plugdev" and/or "cdrom" groups?

In fact, what is the output of the command 'groups'?

users floppy audio video cdrom

Well that explains a lot.

Some extra groups you will find it useful to be in:

plugdev power netdev scanner

plugdev: for usb sticks
power: for shutdown and other power operations
netdev: for wicd (if you have wifi)
scanner: well self-explanatory

You can add yourself to these groups by (as root)

usermod -G plugdev,power,netdev,scanner <username>

Note there are no spaces within the group list.

You will need to logout of X and all consoles after using this command so that the groups work.

Edit: A hint - when creating a new user press up-arrow at the extra groups prompt and the list will be populated.

groups is now users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power netdev


but i got the same message:

Failed to mount "1G Removable Volume".

Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.30" (uid=1001 pid=6722 comm="exo-mount -n -h /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volum") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=2915 comm="/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes ")).

May be reboot the system first?

/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus reload
/etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart

and restart X

Hopefully we can do it by restarting/loading hald, messagebus and maybe udev. There isn't the need to reboot usually but ymmv.

And check 'dmesg | tail' for errors.

Actually, I'd do this as root instead:
Since the usermod command that you gave would remove the user from any other secondary groups to which he currently belongs.

bash-3.1# /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus reload
Reloading system message bus configuration...
bash-3.1# /etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart
Starting HAL daemon: /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes