Is there a difference between using pmount and mount?

Is there any difference between using pmount to mount a device (e.g., USB drive) and using mount with user in the 4th column of /etc/fstab?

Essentially, is the only purpose of pmount to allow the mounting of a device as user, either without an fstab entry or to a mount point not specified by fstab... or are there greater differences?

Thank You.

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pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry.

So yes its only purpose is to allow normal users to mount removable drives.

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