Re: [gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

[Ramon Fischer]

Hello BillK,

I guess, that you are looking for the mount option "user":

    /etc/fstab

    /dev/sdx         /<some_path>       ext4 noauto,user,relatime 0       2

In this way, I can mount "/dev/sdx" with an unprivileged user:

    $ mount /<some_path>

See also "man 8 mount" ("Non-superuser mounts").

I am not sure, if this also works with "automount" from "net-fs/autofs", 
if this is what you meant with "automounter".

-Ramon

On 01/04/2021 06:51, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi,
>
>       I use a sata drive caddy with 2Tb hard disks for offline backups.
> Almost everytime (within sessions are ok?) it asks for a password before
> automounting.  This is just annoying and has no security benefit in my
> environment (why just hard disks when USB keys and SD cards don't ask
> for one?).
>
> So, how can I disable the automounter asking for a password either in
> general, or just for my backup drives?
>
> BillK
>
>
>

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