Re: USB key accepts data only as root
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Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
> 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. ?????????
I did not start _a root session_ but I did `su', okay. But I need to
do this. If I do not do this, I do not have access to the removable
devices which are connected through USB.
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