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| From | Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific |
| Date | 2016-11-21 15:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sFXse-2bv-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:53:25PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 08:18:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:51:58PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives
>>
>>>When I plug one into my Debian machine I want totally unfettered
>>>read/write access.
>>>[when logged in as root or *ANY* user ID]
>>
>>You can't.
>>
>>You have to be root to mount one of these things, or to edit the
>>/etc/fstab file to give an ordinary user the permission to mount one of
>>these things.
>
>Let me restate this another way. Greg said "You have to be root to
>mount ...". Another way to say this is "Only root can mount ...".
>
>What's the difference? If you want to mount you can EITHER switch to
>root and issue a mount command as root, OR you can install something
>which runs AS ROOT and mounts the device automatically.
>
>Now, I believe pmount was mentioned in this thread, as was udisks.
>These demons can be considered brokers. You ask them to mount the disk
>and they, running as root, mount the disk and set the appropriate
>permissions to your user.
>
>There is another alternative that I just found, though. With a little
>hacking, you can get udev itself to mount the drive.
>
>https://www.axllent.org/docs/view/auto-mounting-usb-storage/ shows a
>set of udev rules that will mount a vfat or ntfs USB stick to
>"/media/${File System ID or Label}", AND set the user permissions
>appropriately.
Sorry, slight clarification as I read it again. It will mount ANY new
device matching /dev/sd[a-z][0-9], but for vfat and ntfs drives it adds
extra options to the mount command.
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MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-20 21:30 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-20 22:00 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 13:50 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-21 14:30 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-21 14:40 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-21 15:20 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-21 16:40 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 17:30 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-21 17:50 +0100
Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:30 +0100
[off list] Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-22 16:00 +0100
Re: [off list] Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 19:00 +0100
Re: [off list] Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-24 19:00 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-21 14:20 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-21 15:00 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-21 15:10 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-21 15:20 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 17:40 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-21 18:20 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:40 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-21 19:50 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 20:40 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-21 21:50 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-22 16:10 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-22 16:20 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-22 16:40 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 17:00 +0100
Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-22 17:00 +0100
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