The mount and umount commands require root user privilege to effect changes.

Alternately, specific privileges to perform the corresponding action may have been previously granted by the root user.

This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and keeps the usage of root to a minimum.

This package also contains a wrapper pmount-hal, which reads information such as device labels and mount options from HAL and passes it to pmount.

[4] As with all unix-like commands, the options are specific to the version of mount and are precisely detailed in its man page.