Re: WD Passport commands

From	Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: WD Passport commands
Date	2012-11-19 03:03 -0500
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On 11/17/2012 01:25 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> I still have a problem I didn't have in earlier kernels, which is that
> when user writes a file to this device, the file ends being owned by
> root, not by user. Only now with EXT3 I can run chown on it to change
> the owner. But I'd just a soon a file written by user keep user's
> ownership. Years ago I think I simply changed owner of the dev file or
> something like that to give user free access to a device, but surely
> that's not right.
>
Make sure the directories don't have setuid or setgid permissions.

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WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-05 23:08 -0500
  Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-06 08:50 +0000
  Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
    Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 05:57 -0500
        Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-17 13:44 +0000
          Re: WD Passport commands Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
          Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 13:25 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-17 20:30 +0000
              Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 05:03 -0500
                Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-20 10:25 +0000
                Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 11:27 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-18 18:16 +0000
            Re: WD Passport commands Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-19 03:03 -0500

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