Only Root Can Mount USB Drive
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:09 pm
I want to be able to mount my usb thumb drive without having to authenticate myself. i read the notice that pops up which says either mount the device as root or recompile ntfs-3g with fuse support and make it setuid root. i downloaded the source for the newest ntfs-3g and compiled it as it said.
I also executed these commands so that I could mount any ntfs drive as an unprivileged user:source
when I inserted my usb drive it pops up konqueror but instead of giving me an error it just doesnt do anything (it doesnt mount the drive).
so i tried this:source
but got the same problem.
I also executed these commands so that I could mount any ntfs drive as an unprivileged user:
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chown root.ntfsuser $(which ntfs-3g)
chmod 4750 $(which ntfs-3g)
when I inserted my usb drive it pops up konqueror but instead of giving me an error it just doesnt do anything (it doesnt mount the drive).
so i tried this:
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chown root $(which ntfs-3g)
chmod 4755 $(which ntfs-3g)
but got the same problem.