[wplug] usb memory sticks / non-root?

[joe]

Brandon Kuczenski wrote:

>I'm using a usb memory stick to transfer files with a Windows computer.  I 
>was thrilled that:
>
># mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/mem 
>
>seemed to work great! Unfortunately, 
>
># chmod a+w /mnt/usb/mem
>
>did not work -- it said permission was denied (and so only root could copy
>files to the memory stick).  Using mount with -o users didn't seem to
>help.  I found at least one webpage saying it was not possible for
>ordinary users to have read/write privileges on usb memory sticks in Linux
>.. can you folks confirm this?
>
>thanks,
>-Brandon
>
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I use autofs it works great for me:
http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/2004/linux.ars-20040211-1.html