Intrepid Blog » pmount http://blog.affien.com A few thoughts Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:47:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 (auto)mounting removable media as user http://blog.affien.com/archives/2006/12/13/automounting-removable-media-as-user/ http://blog.affien.com/archives/2006/12/13/automounting-removable-media-as-user/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:46:26 +0000 Bas Westerbaan http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2006/12/13/automounting-removable-media-as-user/ I’ve always been bothered by the fact that you need to be root to mount anything (like an usb stick). It can be solved a bit by setting up udev rules and putting a specific device in /etc/fstab, but that only works for that single usb stick. Pretty annoying.

Googling only gives you stupid and silly solution (like allowing users to mount /dev/sd[a-z] — security risk).

Luckily I’ve recently been pointed to ivman, which is an automounter. It automatically mounts removable media for you in /media.

I looked at the internals of ivman, and noticed that it uses pmount, which is a wrapper around mount which allows users to mount removable media on a /media folder. Great!

Btw, you need to be in the plugdev group to use pmount.

Update It seems that gnome-mount also works fine when you’re in the plugdev group. Gnome-mount does about the same as pmount with the advantage that gnome-mount has got the nice gui integration everywhere in gnome.

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