>If one wishes to have user mounted USB devices (external hard disks mainly), >is it possible to do this by setting >vfs.usermount=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf? I >actually tried, but nothing happened.
Yes, setting 'sysctl vfs.usermount=1' allows non-root user to mount a file system (otherwise only root is allowed to do that). This will not do any auto mounting, just give user possibility to mount file system (if permissions on mount point & special file allows). There is no auto unmounting either; IMO it is better to learn user to do these two steps, than try to automate. -thomas - $ sysctl -d vfs.usermount vfs.usermount: Allow non-root users to mount filesystems
