Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 08:10:09 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/20/2016 7:58 AM, Joe wrote:
> >
> >This all Just Works, and I have no idea what configuration it depends
> >on. "I didn't build this," sid basically builds and rebuilds itself, so
> >I tend to keep my fingers out of the works. I do know that USB sticks
> >were a real pain with usbmount, which *sometimes* mounted the entire
> >device instead of the partitions, and at some point, things just
> >started working better.
> >
> >There is nothing in /etc/polkit-1, /etc/udev or /etc/udisks2 referring
> >to USB sticks, which are the most likely suspects as far as I can see.
> >Presumably the culprit is systemd, as usual, so possibly someone more
> >knowledgable about this beast can finish my part-answer.
> >
>
> Do you have a file named "pmount.allow"?
> Web searches turn up references to it, but haven't found any details on
> syntax and/or examples.
/etc/pmount.allow is created when pmount is installed. The manual tells
you everything you need to know about it. With "/dev/sda1" as a line in
the file you can mount the partition with 'pmount sda1'.
I'd not think you would need to populate pmount.allow for a removable
device.
--
Brian.
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