Maybe I'm missing the point here, but we've had good results with
using /etc/updfstab.conf  ("man updfstab"  for details)

If the device does not appear automatically in fstab, then we 
take a look with the hardware browser, or by looking in
/proc/scsi/scsi, and formulate an appropriate additional stanza
in /etc/updfstab.conf

Whenever the inserted device matches a stanza in that file, e.g

device flash {
    partition 1
    match   hd CompactFlash
    match   hd ImageMate
}

then "magically" a mount point is created for it in /mnt , and
a line like this appears in fstab:

/dev/sda1      /mnt/flash         auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

One can then issue a command

mount /mnt/flash

even as an ordinary user.  

(Of course any update to updfstab has to be done with root privs).

hope this makes some sense



On Wed, 3 May 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Just to add on what Connie said.
> S.L. 3.0.x does not automatically put the usb stuff in the /etc/fstab and make
> them automatically mountable by general users.  That is in S.L. 4.x, but not
> S.L. 3.0.x.
> S.L. 3.0.x you have to either mount it as root, or set things up in fstab by
> hand so that the users can mount it.  So if you look in /proc/partitions (or
> /var/log/messages) and see it is /dev/sda1 then you'll have to make a
> directory and mount it, as root, such as
>   mkdir -p /media/usbdisk
>   mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk