Re: flash drive mounted under root
Thanks to everyone who bothered to reply. I managed to solve the problem
and the credit for help goes to Chun-Chung Chen (who appears to be
reading the list but not signed up for it, so he mailed to me
separately). The problem seems to be with the gnome-mount package,
particularly with broken gconf parameters for the one. It is not clear
whether the configuration was broken when installing the gnome-mount
package itself or by some other package. In order to fix the glitch with
permission on mounted external storage I had to add "mount_options" key
to the /system/storage/default_options/vfat/ path. The key has to be of
type List with the items of type String. The problem is resolved by
adding just one value to the list, namely "uid=".
This role of key is described on gnome-mount man page, although this
page seems to be rather outdated.
Later it was found that simple reinstallation of the gnome-mount package
solves the problem and similar keys are added for many other file systems.
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:37 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
> I'm not sure when this began, but I just discovered that all my usb
> storage devices are mounted in a way that root appears to be the owner
> of all the files. Now I can't write anything to my flash drive, unless
> I open the root console. I'm sure It wasn't like this before, and I
> suspect it happened after one of the updates. Is there a way to fix this
> manually?
>
> this is FC6 here.
>
>
>
> --
> regards,
> Oleksandr Korneta
>
> /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
>
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./