I'll answer with something a little bit like Joe's answer. On my daily working machine, which uses Wheezy, I use Dophin as a file manager.
After I plug in a USB stick, after a few seconds (maybe up to 20??), a new entry appears on the left hand list of partitions in Dolphin. If I click on that, the files are displayed in the (current working) pane of Dolphin, and I can use the mouse to drag and drop them, open them, or similar. The top of that dophin pane shows where the device is mounted, for example, /media/84BE-2329/. If I then go to a CLI and refer to that mountpoint, I can access the files. To anticipate an answer to your potential next question, there is no pmount.allow file on this computer. I may try the same thing on my future daily working machine, using Jessie (and, iiuc, systemd or whatever it is called). If I try that, I'll let you know. On Sunday, November 20, 2016 08:58:04 AM Joe wrote: > There *is* a generic answer, which requires no fstab entry, but I have > to admit that I haven't a clue what it is. > > I'm running sid with systemd, with absolutely nothing in /etc/fstab > which refers to USB sticks, but nonetheless any USB stick inserted is > recognised and automounted under /media/joe (maybe immediately and maybe > on access, I'm not sure, but it shows instantly in file managers) with > everything in a FAT partition having ownership of joe:me and > permissions of 644. Ext partitions have their own permissions, as > expected. > > This all Just Works, and I have no idea what configuration it depends > on. "I didn't build this," sid basically builds and rebuilds itself, so > I tend to keep my fingers out of the works. I do know that USB sticks > were a real pain with usbmount, which *sometimes* mounted the entire > device instead of the partitions, and at some point, things just > started working better. > > There is nothing in /etc/polkit-1, /etc/udev or /etc/udisks2 referring > to USB sticks, which are the most likely suspects as far as I can see. > Presumably the culprit is systemd, as usual, so possibly someone more > knowledgable about this beast can finish my part-answer.
