I have read some things about permissions. More often than not, people say, 'Don't chmod 777! What are you, crazy!'. I think the idea is that if you were just going to chmod 777 everything, then there would be no reason for linux to have a superior file permission in the first place. But when it comes to USB, some people say, 'Just chmod 777 everything to everyone!". What are they, crazy? Even when I do chmod 777 everything on a USB, it doesn't always work. Sometimes it has worked. Sometimes it hasn't. I've no idea why not.
What I don't understand, if linux permissions have so much trouble with USB anyway, and the solution is just to chmod 777 everything anyway, then why not have linux always set USB drives up like that in the first place? It would save a lot of people a lot of pain. Those masters of the lodge or whoever would be able to change their USB permissions to something that doesn't work if they wanted to. And everyone else can simply get on with their work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222626 Title: ext3 partitions on external usb drives can only be written to by root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/222626/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
