James Knott wrote:
Carlos F. Lange wrote:
On Thu January 3 2008 17:44:45 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
And in case I connect it to someone else's machine, it will be mounted with however is user UID in their machine, which might not be the current user and then the permissions are not right, etc.
then make the owner of the partition "users"
ie: chmod users:users /mnt/<name>
and "anyone" in users can access it.
For that I need to be root, which in the general case neither me nor the owner of the machine may be. That is the convenience of the vfat partition that Hal mounts as owned by the currently active user, as with the "users" option of mount.
Can I set something on my USB ext2 partition to tell Hal to automount it as owned by the user?
Given that it's entirely possible to have multiple users logged in at the same time, which user would own it?
This is a fairly arbitrary design decision, so there's room for discussion about the particular tradeoffs. My recent experience seems to indicate that the ownership of the device is assigned to the last person who started an X session. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org