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#4 Re: Giving power to the user in front of the screen Posted by Anonymous (157.138.xx.xx) on Wed 22 Feb 2006 at 10:19 I had this simple problem: the "desktop user" was authenticated from a remote LDAP server. Using the module pam_mkhomedir he could "on the fly" have his local home directory created and have access to the local and network resources like printers and so on. But he could not see his removable devices like a usb pen drive because, as the pmount man page quotes: " Important note for Debian: The permission to execute pmount is restricted to members of the system group plugdev. Please add all desk- top users who shall be able to use pmount to this group by executing adduser user plugdev " Since the desktop user was authenticated from a remote LDAP server there was no way to include his username in the plugdev group, in fact "a priori" his username was not known at all. Following the instructions of this article and putting the suid bit to pmount command everything works fairy well. Thanks Matteo!

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