Re: how do i control file ownership in usbmount?
On Monday 21 November 2005 4:54 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have just installed usbmount. It is great at handling my
> memory stick, but I have a problem:
>
> The memory stick contains, I believe a vfat file system.
> When it is mounted with usbmount, the files on it appear
> to belong to user:group = root:root . However, vfat does
> not, I think, contain any user:group assignments. I find
> it inconvenient to have to log in as root, or use sudo
> just to edit the files on the memory stick. That sort of
> spoils all the convenience of the automatic mount.
>
> Can I set up some config that will tell usbmount to assign
> different, more convenient defaults to user:group? How?
>
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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