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Bug#651575: marked as done (general: usb drive (automount) has wrong permissions, regular user cannot read/write to device/folder)



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regarding general: usb drive (automount) has wrong permissions, regular user cannot read/write to device/folder
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It appears from web searching that this may have to do with udev rules.
Usually, automounting allows user access but I am not able to read/write w/out
having to manually changing permissions.



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On Sb, 10 dec 11, 08:58:16, kennethh@airpost.net wrote:

> 3. not sure what a layout is but the drive has the ext3 filesystem

mount really should not affect permissions of files on a device 
(removable or not).

It just happens that (v)fat does not support permissions at all and 
support for ntfs permissions is not implemented[1], which is why 
auto-mounters tend to give full r/w permissions to the logged in 
user[2].

[1] I'm guessing that a major hurdle would be translating ntfs-style
permissions to unix-style permissions.
[2] This is what one would expect in 99% of the cases anyway

In the future you might want to consider writing to debian-user before 
opening a bug.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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