[opensuse] opensuse12.3 - cannot make ext drive available to all users
We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives. Our office desktop is used by several people during the day; each user has her/his own account, and users switch between them with the usual ctrl+alt+Fn combination. Most of our data is stored on an external drive. The first user plugs it in, and the last user of the day ejects it and stores it away securely. At least, that's what used to happen with opensuse 12.2. Since moving to 12.3, we find we can't do that. The first user has sole use of the drive in /var/run/media/<username1>, and other users have no access, which means they cannot access or update our data. Is there any (fairly straightforward) way we can restore the previous behaviour, and allow multiple users to access the external drive? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:13 PM, John King <johnmking_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives.
Our office desktop is used by several people during the day; each user has her/his own account, and users switch between them with the usual ctrl+alt+Fn combination.
Most of our data is stored on an external drive. The first user plugs it in, and the last user of the day ejects it and stores it away securely. At least, that's what used to happen with opensuse 12.2.
Since moving to 12.3, we find we can't do that. The first user has sole use of the drive in /var/run/media/<username1>, and other users have no access, which means they cannot access or update our data.
Is there any (fairly straightforward) way we can restore the previous behaviour, and allow multiple users to access the external drive?
John
John, It's a new feature of udisks2 in combination with Gnome. If you want to put it back in /media try this: 1) get the latest udisk packages from online updates 2) Create: /etc/udev/rules.d/99-correct-media-mount-point.rules With rule (contents): ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto",ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1" that's a one liner and the file name can be anything that starts with 99. 3) restart udisks (there is a command I don't remember, or you can just reboot) Details for this are in a bugzilla, but I don't have the bnc# handy. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-08-22 at 17:23 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:13 PM, John King <> wrote:
We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives.
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John,
It's a new feature of udisks2 in combination with Gnome.
If you want to put it back in /media try this:
1) get the latest udisk packages from online updates
2) Create:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-correct-media-mount-point.rules
With rule (contents): ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto",ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1"
that's a one liner and the file name can be anything that starts with 99.
3) restart udisks (there is a command I don't remember, or you can just reboot)
Details for this are in a bugzilla, but I don't have the bnc# handy.
Just for completeness, it is: <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809837> - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMwV/kACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XUsACdHzMAA1TjgcrMfa31O5wL2t6+ hKYAnR/FMWZgqAaJpmBBA88ZWQYwnf3n =ReWB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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