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Re: USB Flash Memory permissions



On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:49 +0000, John Talbut wrote:
> As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes back 
> settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev.  I have looked through the 
> various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I cannot work out how I 
> end up with the line:
> 
> /dev/myFlash /media/usbdisk vfat 
> rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 
> 0 0
> 
> in /etc/mtab , particularly the umask=077 .  Does anyone know where this value 
> comes from and hence what to change in order to change the permissions?

I think you need to edit the source for gnome-volume-manager to change
that value. After all, g-v-m is what is running pmount when your usb
stick has been detected.

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