From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When inserting a USB drive that is not explicitely mention in the updfstab.conf* files, no fstab entry is generated to allow a normal user to mount it. This means that unless every single USB dongle on the market that in fact supported by the usb-storage driver is mentioned by model name, this will only work for a very selected few USB drives. This is a bug and completely unsupportable in an enterprise environment. Is there a solution for this other than generating a huge updfstab.conf? Gr, Xander Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.22.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert USB dongle 2. Watch as nothing happens 3. Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: /etc/fstab should have an entry for the device with the "user" option so non-root users can mount it. Additional info:
There is some work being done for future releases for this with gnome-volume-manager. Asidee from that, updfstab.conf changes are what's needed for RHEL 3.
Here's the output of kudzu -p -b scsi as requested via email by Bill Nottingham. - class: CDROM bus: SCSI detached: 0 device: scd0 driver: ignore desc: "Qsi CDRW/DVD SBW-242" host: 1 id: 0 channel: 0 lun: 0 generic: sg0 - class: HD bus: SCSI detached: 0 device: sda driver: ignore desc: "Apacer HandyDrive" host: 2 id: 0 channel: 0 lun: 0 generic: sg Gr, Xander
What sort of USB drive is this? (flash, SD, etc.)
It's a std USB pen drive, 128MB, nothing fancy. Looks like this one: http://www.apacer.com/apacer_english/product_html/handy_steno20.asp, only USB 1.1, not 2.0. Gr, Xander
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-509.html