Automounting USB drives on GUI-free server

[Karl Auer]

I have an application running on a text-mode-only Ubuntu system
(16.04).

As far as I can tell, USB drives only automount inside Unity, i.e.,
when a GUI is running. However, I need USB drives to automount on boot
and when inserted, even when no GUI is running and no-one is logged in.

So far my googling has turned up only quite complicated solutions
involving dozens of lines of udev rules, but most of these solutions
are several years old.

I'll go the udev route if I have to, I was just hoping there was an
easier way these days.

When I insert a USB stick, syslog tells me it has been detected and
plumbed; a device /dev/sdb becomes available and I can mount it
manually.

Regards, K.

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