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I'm running Mandrake 8.1. I have a fuji camera that I can connect to the
computer via usb. I managed to mount this device (dev/sdb1), but it seems
that it will not mount unless it is connected when I log in as a regular
user. When I am root, I can mount it in a terminal.

Is this normal, or should the device be recognized whenever I connect it? I
can get it to work, it would just be a lot handier if I didn't have to
change to root or have the camera connected before I log in.

TIA

Todd

Read the manual on 'su'. Look closely at the '-c' option. It lets you
execute
exactly one command as root and returns you to your current directory.

Some of those type of things are reserved for security reasons to use by
the superuser.
Dave

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:03:40 GMT, Todd Slater staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Quote:> I'm running Mandrake 8.1. I have a fuji camera that I can connect to
> the computer via usb. I managed to mount this device (dev/sdb1), but
> it seems that it will not mount unless it is connected when I log in
> as a regular user. When I am root, I can mount it in a terminal.

> Is this normal, or should the device be recognized whenever I connect
> it?

The device should be *recognized* whenever you connect it, since it's a
standard USB-storage device.  However, just because it's been recognized
by the USB subsystem doesn't mean that the device will be mounted
automagically.  You need an automounter daemon or something for that.  I
don't recommend that approach, but maybe the automounters have improved
in the last year.

Quote:> I can get it to work, it would just be a lot handier if I didn't
> have to change to root or have the camera connected before I log in.

Edit your /etc/fstab to include a line similar to the following.  I
don't know if Mandrake is still using the nonstandard fstab format they
were using a while back, but anyway:

/dev/sdb1   /mnt/camera   vfat   noauto,user,umask=000   0   0

The "user" makes it so that any normal user can mount or umount the
device.  The umask=000 makes everything on the device wide open.  Since
FAT filesystems have no concept of permissions anyway, attempting to
force security onto them tends to just get in the way.

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