Mounting USB memory stick problem

[Chris Norman]

Hi people,
My subject line isn't really accurate, there is no problem in doing it,
it just doesn't happen when I want it to.

There was a time (under gnome, ubuntu 6.10), when I could put a memory
stick in the bus and it would just mount, now I have to mount it as
root, and any attempts to do it from my normal user under the GUI
complains.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
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Chris Norman.
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