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Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

On 11/20/2016 7:29 AM, Brian wrote:

On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 19:51:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:


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)


Sorry. I took "unfettered read/write" access as a user to mean
partition/format in addition to writing a file to the disk.

Doesn't pmount fit the bill if all you want is to read/write?



No.
Maybe the problem is D.E. specific? I'm using MATE and thus Caja as file-manager. 
On top menu-bar Places will list identifiers for mountable devices.
Clicking the "identifier" will "mount" the identified device.
It will use information available from /etc/fstab and/or pmount.allow . Neither appears to have an entry equivalent to "any FAT filesystem on plugable device".
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