Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:51:58PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives
> When I plug one into my Debian machine I want totally unfettered
> read/write access.
> [when logged in as root or *ANY* user ID]
You can't.
You have to be root to mount one of these things, or to edit the
/etc/fstab file to give an ordinary user the permission to mount one of
these things.
Didn't we tell you this multiple times over the last several weeks?
Yes, we did.
AS ROOT, you can determine the device name (which is dynamically
generated every time you plug it in), and then mount it with some
commands like:
mkdir -p /usb
mount -o uid=richard /dev/sdb1 /usb
Where /dev/sdb1 is the partition you want to mount, and /usb is a
directory you create specifically for the purpose of mounting the
device onto. And "richard" is the username you want the files to
appear to be owned by.
ONCE IT IS MOUNTED, then user "richard" can read and write to the
files and directories.
To unmount it, you have to be root again. And then it's simply:
umount /usb
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