mounting usb pen drive as writeable for other users
 

How do I mount a usb pen drive so it's writeable by other users besides root. Kinda annoying if I have to keep using the terminal to cp files to pen drive.

add the keywords "users" and "rw" to the mount options in /etc/fstab

I did /dev/sdc1 /media/usb vfat rw,user 0 0

The mount point keeps changing to belong to root when it's mounted
i still cant copy and paste to the mount point using the browser (program used to browse file systems) provided by gnome

Have you tried this?

linuxmandrake, jomen said 'users', not 'user'.

Use pmount instead of mount.

for some reason pmount wont mount it. Just basically says it cant do it

the command that jomen told you should work.. does it not?

The mount points in /media are usually managed by the systems automounting solutions like pmount or ivman or both or other solutions...the problem with the changing permissions could be there?

If you put it where it normally is - to /mnt - it will not get touched by the system and your permissions will stay the way you set them...

fstab entry:
just in case...the directory /mnt/usb needs to exist...

pmount works perfectly for me.
$ pmount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/
(sometimes /dev/sdd )
Then I'm able to read/write my flash device as user.
BTW: It is posible mount flash drive/card to any directory U wish (/home/username/foo , for example) with pmount.

I think I should reinstall pmount.

sudo dpkg -r --force pmount
would uninstall it regardless of dependencies right?
then I'll use apt-get to install it

Is it safe to do?

since it appears to be not working now anyway...yes - it should be safe.
You will reinstall it afterwards anyway - I'd be surprised if this fixes anything though.
What about a change to /etc/fstab like I suggested - did that not change anything - did it not work?

I reinstalled it and it said permission denied when I executed pmount but works as root.

Did you pay attention to any (possible) messages while you installed it?
(requiering you to do something to make things work...)
pmount is not intended to be used on command-line - it is used by your system to make automounting or mounting with a click in your DE (Gnome or KDE) possible.
For this the user who wants to be able to use this feature needs t be in a certain group sometimes - Ubuntu should have set this up for you - but maybe not...
Check if you can mount the device in your DE by clicking on Computer and selecting the device - it should appear there if you plug it in.

i did and it complains saying it cant execute it