mount removable devices as normal user pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum. This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this feature. If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to transparently mount encrypted volumes. This requires ivman and HAL, both of which are available at SlackBuilds.org. The user executing 'pmount' probably via 'ivman-launch' must be a member of the 'plugdev' system group (which is required by HAL).