Some time ago I had a similar persistent problem in Hardy. I tried many things but the only way I could solve it was by adding an entry in fstab for my flash drives. That worked for me because I rarely had to mount any other drives but those two:
UUID=4C27-9760 /media/disk vfat user,umask=007,utf8,flush,noauto 0 0 UUID=3FF1-8D24 /media/disk2 vfat user,umask=007,utf8,flush,noauto 0 0 --- On Sun, 6/19/11, John Mollman <jw.moll...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: John Mollman <jw.moll...@gmail.com> > Subject: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account > To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 12:30 AM > Hi, > > I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy > with a > normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the > 'plugdev' group > with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that > doesn't seem to > work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash > drive as root > using Thunar. > > I am running Openbox with tint2, and I start them with the > 'startx' > command with the .xinitrc file. Could there possibly be an > issue from > that? Possibly with udisks or udev? Any ideas on what I > should? I'm > thinking about doing another reinstall but I highly doubt > that would > fix this issue. > > Thanks, > John > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinCjTVsK=-thdufe+as-60mkkm...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/55193.49549...@web59511.mail.ac4.yahoo.com