Re: USB ownership

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 21:29:09 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The problem is that the automounter cannot make a direct connection
> > between a specific user session and the physical act of someone plugging
> > in a new device.  It could probably be improved to make better guesses,
> > but it's impossible to know.
> > 
> 
> I can understand that. Can it be automounted with more permissions, like
> rw-rw--r for owner-group ??
> 
> since we are both users, and both in the same group, if group user could
> be rw that would solve it, no matter who owns it. She won't use the
> command like or know to look at files like fstab or mount/pmount.. she
> just wants to plug it in and copy files to/from it.

How can one user unmount the device cleanly if it has been mounted for
the other user?

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