Re: USB Flash Memory permissions

[Wang Xu <gnawux@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +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?

Did you ever check the ``mount_option'' written in 
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ?

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Wang Xu