[Linux-Discussion] Re: configuring network adapters

  • From: "Khalid, S. Arif" <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:58:29 -0500

Never mind about the mouse focus question (QUESTION 2).  I just
right-clicked on a border to start the configuration for that.
I'm still interested in the user unmounting a USB flashdrive question.

Thanks,

Arif

On 2/8/06, Khalid, S. Arif <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On my SuSE 10.0 system, when I insert a USB flashdrive it mounts
> automatically.  However, before I modifed fstab, only root could unmount the
> drive.  I figured out how to modify fstab by looking at the last line of
> mtab when the drive was mounted.  That line is:
> /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs
> =floppyfss,procuid,utf8=true 0 0
>
> Thus, I added the following line to fstab:
> /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk subfs noauto,fs=floppyfs,rw,users,sync,utf8=true
> 0 0
>
> Now, any user can unmout the USB drive.  I was pretty proud of myself.
>
> HERE COMES THE PROBLEM:
>
> I have another USB flashdrive that gets mounted as a /media/PUBLIC rather
> than /media/usbdisk.  (I think the FAT volume label of the drive is
> "PUBLIC".)  Since this doesn't match new new line in fstab, only root can
> unmount this drive.
>
> Can I set things up so that an ordinary user can unmount a USB flashdrive
> no matter what "mount as" directory name it has?
>
> QUESTION 2:
>
> Does anyone know how to set the mouse pointer focus policy in KDE so that
> a window becomes active just by moving the cursor over it?  I don't want to
> have to click in the window to type in it.
>
> Arif
> _________________
> S. Arif Khalid, Ph.D.
> arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 513-227-3526 (Mobile)
>


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