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Mount permissions always blocked

I'm using a scilinux machine. Whenever I connect an external drive, it is mounted as read only (and the root has full access). What and how should I edit to give a simple user the write privilege?

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marked as duplicate by rozcietrzewiacz, Michael Mrozek♦ Oct 18 '11 at 11:21

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The pmount (policy-based "mount") lets you do that. See this question (possible duplicate).

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