From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SHZ7U-0006mH-Ic for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:20:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E375EE0D18; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE28AE0C10 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:18:45 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,398,1330905600"; d="scan'208";a="613377118" Received: from 213-152-39-89.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.89]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 10 Apr 2012 12:18:46 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (unknown [192.168.1.100]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748C8AA422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:15:19 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User can mount/umount but not write to top the new drive From: Stroller In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:18:38 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) X-Archives-Salt: d8602eaa-0968-46b7-bb8f-899654bb5ff6 X-Archives-Hash: aa0bee3d04351bd315d6d196a991c225 On 9 April 2012, at 20:59, Mark Knecht wrote: > =85=20 > In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive > and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux > remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do anything > else as root. >=20 > Is that truly required or is there a way to give the user access to > the top of the new mount point without roots' involvement? I recall having exactly this problem years ago, and having had it = explained to me here on this list. I'm sure that if you *once* chmod / chown as root, then the permissions = will be remembered correctly forever after. If you unmount and remount = the drive, reboot the computer or whatever, the user will be able to = write to the drive. Do double & triple check this because, although I'm certainly fallible, = I feel certain of this. If I'm mistaken I guess you could do something involving udev mounting = rules. Note that if you use the same USB drive on different computers (or = dual-boot different distros) then you have to be aware of user name vs. = user ID number. Stroller.