Mounting a partition without root permissions

From: Lev Aronsky (aronsky_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: 30 Sep 2005 07:23:24 -0700

Hello!

I have a problem, a solution to which I've been looking for a while
now.
I have a dual-boot system, with Fedora Core 4 installed on one
partition, and Windows XP installed on another.
Among the partitions I have, there's an NTFS partition at /dev/sda4,
which I would like to mount under Linux. Problem is - I cannot do this
without root permissions. All the solutions I found all over the
internet, refer to the file /etc/fstab and suggest to add the 'user'
option to the device I would like to mount without root access. Now,
I've done that, and it solves the problem - partially:
I do get the permission to mount the drive as non-root - but at the
moment I do that, the mount point's ownership changes to root, and
everybody else loses the access to the mount point. All this, of
course, until I unmount - at that stage the mount point's ownership
reverts to my user. One thing I thought would help is to give my user
permissions to access the /dev/sda4 device, yet it doesn't help even
with full permissions on the device... I'm totally frustrated by that,
and stuck without any ideas...

I would appreciate any help...
Thanks in advance,
Lev.

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