[sf-lug] mounting and permissions

[Alex Kleider]

I'm running Debian 10/xfce
Only root is authorized to mount.
When I mount a thumb drive, the owner of the mount point is root:root
but even root doesn't have authority to  # chown alex:alex ~alex/mnt
Surely there must be a way that I can mount something and have permission to write to it?
Can anyone enlighten me?
Alex

Alex Kleider  (set from my current gizmo)