Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-28 Thread Philip Manuel
Scott Silva wrote: on 12-22-2008 4:19 PM Philip Manuel spake the following: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Thanks Phil. Is it something simple like a shell or

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-22-2008 4:19 PM Philip Manuel spake the following: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Thanks Phil. Is it something simple like a shell or something opened into that

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: snip Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this issue. I've never used USB Memory while logged in as root. I'm using CentOS 5 (32 bit). snip Yes the usb stick/memory mounts correctly, but then they are

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Robert
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:46 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule.

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread MHR
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Robert kerp...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Mark's assumption was correct. In KDE, the right-click menu item is Safely remove. I find it interesting, though, that root can manually mount a USB drive from the command line and any user can safely remove it via KDE.

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Philip Manuel
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: snip Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this issue. I've never used USB Memory while logged in as root. I'm using CentOS 5 (32 bit). snip Yes the usb

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this issue. I've

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-22 Thread Philip Manuel
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so,

Re: [CentOS] UDEV rule allow users to unmount USB stick

2008-12-22 Thread MHR
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Philip Manuel p...@zomojo.com wrote: I'm trying to understand why a normal user is not allowed to unmount their USB stick? I think it is most likely a udev rule. does anyone know ? Thanks If I understand this correctly, it's a mount/umount rule - normal