Re: USB key accepts data only as root

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:16:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound
> normal. How can I tweak this?

Not normal.

When I attach a flash drive I get:

sm01@stt008:~$ mount | grep media
/dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000)

Look that "uid=1000".

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l /media/ | grep disk
drwxr-xr-x 3 sm01 root 16384 ene  1  1970 disk

Open GConf Editor and navigate to "/system/storage/default_options/vfat" 
key. It should say:

mount_options [shortname=lower,uid=]

Also, check your "/etc/fstab" file, there should be nothing about the usb 
flash drive. This is auto-handle by HAL and "gnome-mount".

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón