Re: USB Flash Memory permissions
>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?
Wang Xu wrote:
>Did you ever check the ``mount_option'' written in
>/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ?
Yes, all that seems active there is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
</deviceinfo>
Everything else is between <!-- -->, i.e. commented out.
So it does not seem as if the settings are coming from there.
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>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.
I do not understand what you mean by "the source for gnome-volume-manager". As
I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal etc.
John
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