Bug#637805: general: can't mount a usb drive as a non-root user

August 14th, 2011 - 01:30 pm ET by Rudy Klein | Report spam
Package: general
Severity: normal
Tags: lfs

whan i plug a usb hard drive when logged as a non-root user, i have this error
message:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sdc1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

the system seems to allow only root to mount the drive.
when i try to mount the drive as root (in CLI: sudo mount /dev/sdc1
/media/mount_directory ) it works...



Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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#1 Christian PERRIER
August 15th, 2011 - 03:10 am ET | Report spam

reassign 637805 ntfs-3g
thanks

This either belongs to btfs-3gor some local problem that would
make /dev/sdc* devices to not have the right permissions

Reassigning.

At least, please provide more information. Output from "ls -l
/dev/sdc*" as well as "id" is imho the minimum.








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