2 USB Keychain drive questions

[JoeyJoeJo]

I have one that works fine, but is there any way to give users, not just root permission to write to it? And question 2, is there any way I can have it auto mount when I stick it in?

[sploo22]

To allow users to write to it, add the option umask=777 to your fstab entry for it.

I'm not sure about automounting; I haven't kept up with the current USB hotplugging software. I guess you could write a script that would monitor the log files to detect when it was interted. Not sure exactly how though :(

[JoeyJoeJo]

Thanks for the umask. Im not good at writing scripts, but ill try it.

[sploo22]

Well, like I said, I don't know what the current situation is with that sort of stuff. I'm sure there's a much simpler and more elegant solution, I'm just not sure what it is. :)

Try searching the forum for "usb hotplug".

[mdwatts]

If using Mandrake, would supermount take care of that?

[kshim5]

To give users or anybody specific permissions to your USB drive as root you have to edit yout /etc/fstab and give each user or users specific permissions the same applies to auto mounting any device you can check the man pages for all this information(man mount).

[dkeav]

if using mandrake, supermount will take care of it, if you have autofs installed