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Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific



On 11/19/2016 5:07 PM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:51:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE*
purpose.
It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine.
There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between them.

No connection to the internet. No connection to the local network. Has a
Debian machine ever been so emasculated? Plus it has nothing to do with
the problem posed.

When I plug one into my Debian machine I want totally unfettered read/write
access.
[when logged in as root or *ANY* user ID]

The recent thread "parted is ALMOST suitable" has a post
with the line

  Wheezy has /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules; Jessie doesn't.

Perhaps if you reread that portion of the thread and ask yourself:

  Wheezy has /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules; what would happen
  if Jessie did too?

{any one notice a tone of frustration ;/}

No. But we will waited with baited breath for you to report back on the
suggestion.



*NON SRQUITURE* (s)



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