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List:       dragonfly-users
Subject:    Re: Auto-mounting USB storage disks under DragonflyBSD
From:       Thomas Nikolajsen <thomas.nikolajsen () mail ! dk>
Date:       2015-09-20 20:38:45
Message-ID: E7.F0.02999.4591FF55 () fep45
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>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
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$ sysctl -d vfs.usermount
vfs.usermount: Allow non-root users to mount filesystems
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