I want to grant permission one specific standard Ubuntu 11.10 user to be able to mount a specific NTFS drive. How can I do that?
You could create a command line to mount the partition into a script, than grant that user the privilege to run the script with sudo. For example
#!/bin/sh
# Filename: /usr/local/bin/mount-win
mount -o uid=john,gid=john /dev/sda1 /media/win
then
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mount-win
in /etc/sudoers add the line
john ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/mount-win
where john is the standard user's username.
For ease of use, you can create a launcher for the script with a line
Exec=gksu /usr/local/bin/mount-win
