From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020710 Description of problem: I found trouble trying to use plugable devices like USB ZIPDrive or digital cameras while not logged in console, updfstab by default adds a line to fstab with the option "owner". (I wrote a small patch for this, I will submit them after this report). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.99.63-4, 0.99.52-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Logout from console... 2.Connect any hotplug device(I use USB Zipdrive250, Sony Cybershot DSC-P30) 3.Get a non console shell to machine. (Network, Serial Terminal).. Actual Results: Since no one is logged at the console, the owner of the console is "root", so normal users can't mount/umount device. Expected Results: Under some circumstances, it would be helpful to give users rights to mount/umount hotplug devices. Additional info: I have been doing tests with RedHat-7.3 and the rawhide version of kudzu-0.99.63-4
Created attachment 68325 [details] Patch against kudzu-0.99.63-4, add user access to mount/umount hotplug devices
I'm having the same problem with my USB removable devices. I'm finding that the scsi drivers for cdrom's (sr_mod) will chown the device such that the "owner" directive in fstab is appropriate, but that the usb/hdd drivers (sd_mod) don't. Thus, I can only mount and unmount from the user interface. I really like the patch that Jhon wrote, but it doesn't seem to have been included in the relase version of Kudzu, since I'm running 1.1.68, and the user directive is not supported.
As updfstab is no longer used in current releases (removable media mounting is done via HAL, fstab-sync, and gnome-volume-manager), changes to updfstab will almost certainly not be addressed.