Re: Accessing a CF card reader as "non-root"

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/09/04


Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:42:40 +0000

In comp.os.linux.setup, Adonai uttered these immortal words:

> greetings!
> I've been fiddling with my 6in1 USB card reader....got it working
> eventually...so far, so good.
> But I can only access it as root :-(
> There must be something obvious I overlooked

Add "user" to the options part of you /etc/fstab lines relating to your card
reader.

If you haven't added any lines to /etc/fstab (and I have no way of knowing
from the info in your post) then you need to.

Example /etc/fstab line:
/dev/sda1 /media/cf vfat user,noauto 0 0

-- 
Andy.