Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Thursday 2008-01-03 at 22:26 -0700, Carlos F. Lange wrote: > > > 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? > > No. Unix type filesystems are mounted with permissions marked by the > filesystem, not by whom is mounting it. > > Interesting problem, this... universal access to an usb stick as user > plugged in by the user. Mind, on some places usb sticks are banned, and > the usb bus is disabled in hardware, so that employees can not use usb > sticks to violate security protocols. >
It should be interesting when only USB mice and keyboards are available. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
