Re: USB key accepts data only as root

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Not enough information.
> Sorry.
> > Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI?
> Automounted, but the related folder is still there (in /media/) even
> when the USB key is disconnected.
> > What are the ownership and privs on the mount point?  And the raw device?
> ==
> /media# ls -al
> total 28
> drwxrwxrwx  6 root root 4096 2010-04-25 13:26 .
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2010-01-27 11:13 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2009-09-04 19:30 disk
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2010-04-25 13:30 disk-1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 2009-07-17 17:01 floppy ->  floppy0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2009-07-17 17:01 floppy0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  299 2010-04-25 13:26 .hal-mtab
> -rw-------  1 root root    0 2010-04-25 09:31 .hal-mtab-lock
> drwx------  2 root root 4096 2009-08-29 22:20 KUBUNTU_LAPTOP22
> ==
>
> It happens for every removable disk, actually. The raw device is /dev/sde1:
>
> ==
> # ls -al | grep sde
> brw-rw----  1 root floppy    8,  64 2010-04-25 21:45 sde
> brw-rw----  1 root floppy    8,  65 2010-04-25 21:45 sde1
> ==

$ echo $USER
me

$ dir /media | grep CENTON
drwxr-xr-x  2 me   root 4096 1969-12-31 18:00:00 CENTON USB/

~$ dir /dev/sdh
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 112 2010-04-22 16:19:48 /dev/sdh


You wouldn't happen to be logged in as root, would you?

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