"Carlos F. Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu January 3 2008 17:44:45 Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> > And in case I connect it to someone else's machine, it will be >> > mounted with however is user UID in their machine, which might not >> > be the current user and then the permissions are not right, etc. >> >> then make the owner of the partition "users" >> >> ie: chmod users:users /mnt/<name> >> >> and "anyone" in users can access it. > > For that I need to be root, which in the general case neither me nor the > owner of the machine may be. That is the convenience of the vfat > partition that Hal mounts as owned by the currently active user, as > with the "users" option of mount. > > Can I set something on my USB ext2 partition to tell Hal to automount it > as owned by the user?
Not that I'm aware of.
You can create on your system an own fdi file for hal (AFAIK in
/etc/hal/fdi) that does specific action once a specific USB stick is
mounted. But that works only on the system you set it up and you need
to be root to set it up initially,
Andreas
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