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On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:18:38 +0100 |
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Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 9 April 2012, at 20:59, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > … |
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> > In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive |
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> > and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux |
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> > remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do |
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> > anything else as root. |
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> > Is that truly required or is there a way to give the user access |
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> > to the top of the new mount point without roots' involvement? |
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> I recall having exactly this problem years ago, and having had it |
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> explained to me here on this list. |
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> I'm sure that if you *once* chmod / chown as root, then the |
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> permissions will be remembered correctly forever after. If you |
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> unmount and remount the drive, reboot the computer or whatever, the |
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> user will be able to write to the drive. |
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> Do double & triple check this because, although I'm certainly |
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> fallible, I feel certain of this. |
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> If I'm mistaken I guess you could do something involving udev |
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> mounting rules. |
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> Note that if you use the same USB drive on different computers (or |
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> dual-boot different distros) then you have to be aware of user name |
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> vs. user ID number. |
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> Stroller. |
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You are correct. |
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chown the mount point and the top-level "." directory on the disk and |
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that is what is used in future. |
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Fancy software like udev and DEs may undo all of that work, but without |
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their input the above is what works. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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