Re: USB key accepts data only as root

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:14 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > 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
>
> $ echo $USER
> merciadriluca
>
> > $ 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?

<quote> /media# ls -al </quote>  (from previous email from Merciadri)

At this point you obviously are root, even tho' you will not have been able to 
log-in as root.  ?????????

Lisi