Help with sudoers file

[joe.pelayo]

Hello everybody.

I know many of you might find this post quite dumb, anyway I will post it. Today I am looking forward to let my non privileged user to mount a partition in my Linux system. This extra partition will have all my data (music, school files, etc) so I want my user to gain ownership of the files so I thought sudo is my solution, isn't it?
Therefore I am looking forward to allow this user to mount/umount this partition at will (perhaps I add it to fstab as well). The problem I am having is that I can not configure the sudoers file (I use visudo).
The partition is /dev/hda4 and I plan to mount it either in /mnt/storage or in /home/joe/storage, how shall I add the line in the sudoers file? I have tried several ways to do so but when trying to run the command it does not work (only root can do that). By the way the file system is Reiser.

Thanks.
Joe.

[b_martinez]

Is it possible to make a group?
If so,add yourself and the other user to the group, and set the group permissions to what you need. Then add any other users to the group as needed.
Just a thought, but I been drinkin, so I may be WAY out of whack here.
Bill

[fedoraphile]

You can enter the following lines using visudo:

your_user's_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/mount /MOUNTPOINT_YOU_WANT_TO_MOUNT
your_user's_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/umount /MOUNTPOINT_YOU_WANT_TO_MOUNT

This should allow your user to mount and unmount the partition via the designated mountpoint with sudo. Partition and mount point information need to be in fstab.

[joe.pelayo]

Originally Posted by fedoraphile

You can enter the following lines using visudo:

your_user's_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/mount /MOUNTPOINT_YOU_WANT_TO_MOUNT
your_user's_username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/umount /MOUNTPOINT_YOU_WANT_TO_MOUNT

This should allow your user to mount and unmount the partition via the designated mountpoint with sudo. Partition and mount point information need to be in fstab.

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.