Usb stick not mounting as user

I cannot mount the usb stick as user. When I plug the stick in the kde window comes up indicating it is in and goes to a new window and has an error. Following is an error from xsession:
kded: ERROR: mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_709E_ED39: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied - A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
kded: ERROR: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_709E_ED39 returned A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow!
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x3400387
konqueror: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype inode/socket
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x3a00006
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x3a00006
But when I switch to root everything works fine, I can read and write to the stick. I tried from the wiki :
dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick vfat noauto,user 0 0 and this did nothing.

Users worked and now everything is good thank. Solved

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