Oliver Andrich wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:13:10PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Now, if you really wanted to, I guess you could make a HAL rule that >>would change permissions on the mount point after the file system >>is mounted. The question is, do you really want to do this? About >>the only time you might want to do this is if you are moving data >>between systems with different UID and GID mapping. > > > Well, this is excactly what I want to do. Or should do on another > machine, too. And I think this can be a reasonable default for handling > these kind of devices on a workstation installation. I am aware of the > problem when attaching the device to a machine where I have a different > uid. But I am also aware, that on all my Fedora machines at home, at work > and so on I have the same uid, cause I am the user that has been setup > during installation. Basically all the machines are single user > workstations. > > And even if it makes a die-hard unix user shiver, it allows me and my > girlfriend to exchange disks, cause she has the same uid on her machine. > :) > > Well, but back to my problem. Do you know where I can read about the hal > stuff? Or how to configure these things? I never looked into it and some > googling this evening didn't bring up any useful information. > > Best regards, > Oliver > http://hal.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal But before you try that, try plugging in the drive, changing to the mount point, and running, as root: chmod 1777 . chown root:root . You should then be able to read/write the drive as a normal user. You will be able to do anything to the drive that you can do to the /tmp directory. The exception is that the drive the way the drive gets mounted, suid programs and device files will not work. Much safer and easier then playing with HAL rules. Also, this will carry over to any other Linux machine you mount the drive on. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
