James Knott
I've been testing a USB attached hard drive and noticed something peculiar. If I format the drive with Reiser or , only root can write to it. If I format FAT32, users can also write. Users can always read, no matter what format is used. It is not mounted with fstab. Any ideas as to why the difference?
The mounting policy is defined by HAL (see e.g. /usr/share/doc/packages/hal/spec/hal-spec.html) in newer SUSE versions (I'm sure about 9.3 and 10.0). The system looks flexible but, unfortunately, its documentation does not address users' needs well now. For instance I need to change the policy for remote users and NTFS file systems on USB disks but I don't see a straightforward way how to do it without performing some tests first. But I cannot perform them on a production system. Hopefully, the situation will get better later. -- A.M.