Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved]

2020-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:47:14, Joe wrote: > > I believe a mount point will always be owned by root, regardless of the > permissions of the underlying directory, Nitpick: in the relevant documentation a "mount point" is the underlying directory. You're probably referring to the filesystem's root

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved]

2020-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 07:47:14PM +, Joe wrote: > I believe a mount point will always be owned by root, regardless of the > permissions of the underlying directory, because only root is allowed > to mount things. unicorn:~$ mkdir mtpt unicorn:~$ ls -ld mtpt drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Dec 9

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved]

2020-12-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:22:28 -0700 Fred wrote: > When I was denied permission to write a file to the device as a > regular user I checked the permissions and then discovered root could > not change them. Being a hardware oriented person I was concerned > the SecureAccess software needed to

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved]

2020-12-09 Thread Fred
On 12/8/20 9:39 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-12-08 07:29, Fred wrote: Hello, I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick.  The fine print on the package says it has SecureAccess software.  It is so secure it prevents me from writing to it without running the included Bill Gates