mounting external harddisk with fstab-sync as a non-root user

[Arthur Pemberton]

Didier Casse wrote:

>On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
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>>Didier Casse wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>   My FC3 box can recognize my external usb harddisk when I plug it
>>>in. In gnome the icons pop up on the desktop but when I try to open it
>>>to read it, it tells me that I do not have the permission to do it!!!
>>>
>>>I realize that only root can read the /media/whatever_stuff which is mounted.
>>>
>>>I would like to enable it for a normal user. How do I do this? Thanks
>>>for the help
>>>
>>>I mean I don't know the idea behind this but it's kind of silly that
>>>only root is able to read an external harddrive.
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>>The only root being able to mount external media was in the FC1 early
>>FC2 days. I know from experience that this works very well in FC3. Only
>>difference is that I use KDE, i doubt however that that is the issue.
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>Dear Arthur,
>                  It works fine... Everything is correctly mounted but
>I have to be root to see the files on my external hard drive. I want
>to be able to see the files as a NORMAL USER.
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Ok, fair enough. What user are you logged in as when you put in the usb 
drive? And what user do you use to mount the drive? (I would suggest 
attempting this at the command promt just incase this is a gnome problem 
`$ mount usbdrive`