Do you need to retain the vfat file system?  I get around this problem by 
reformatting the usb stick with a Linux file system.  I don't think the vfat 
file system allows you to change the permission attributes.

 - Denis Wee


On Monday 13 April 2009 8:50 am, Wilfred Walsh wrote:
> I want my vfat usb stick to (auto)mount with username usergroup
> ownership, so that rsync works as I want it to. At present, under
> gnome on fedora 10, the ownership is username root and I cannot use
> chown, even as root, to change it.
>
> Under "system-preferences-system-authorizations-hal" I changed all
> fields to "yes" which I assume to be the most permissive, and then
> restarted hal service, to no avail.
>
> Any ideas please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wilfred

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