Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 21:12:19 schrieb James Knott:
C wrote:
Aha.. but.. as I discovered with a little tinkering (which reminded me what I did so very long ago) you can plug in the ext4 formatted USB drive, do a chown -R $USER:$GROUP /media/USBLabel and it will remember that ownership for next time the device is connected to that computer.
You can unmount and remount and it'll retain the tweaked permissions.
However, that will only work on the computer you issued that command on.
That depends. It will work on every unix computer for every user that has the same numerical(!) uid and gid. When making the file system world writable with restricted deletion, like temp, every user, regardless of their uid/gid, can write to it. However, the protection of the restricted deletion bit is futile if the user of another computer chooses the same uid/gid. Nonetheless, everyone who has physical access to the drive can read it unless encryption is used. Gruß Jan -- No man's life, liberty or possessions are safe while the legislature is in session. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org