Gianluca Cecchi wrote, On 02/13/2008 06:53 PM:
Hello all.
<SNIP>
Only problem he reported lately was that when inserting an usb key, with
normal user profile the access was read only, while logged as root had also
write access.
<SNIP> system was updated to F8 DVD status, and yum updated in mid January.
Question, has it been updated to near the latest F8 updates by yum? It is
always _POSSIBLE_ that a yum update could fix things. :) Of course if you
have a much faster internet connection, you could be nice and take a yum repo
copy on a big usb device.
<SNIP> messages indicating no reason for the device to be read only.
Jan 26 17:53:15 tekkaman hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500
were there any other message after this in the log, in the next second or two,
concerning /dev/sdb1 or /media/KINGSTON?
but actually on his pc the directory /media/KINGSTON is writable only by
root
Doing an iterated "ls -l" on my pc I see this sequence while inserting the
usb key:
[root@tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD
[root@tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-02-13 23:47 KINGSTON
[root@tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD
drwxr-xr-x 4 gcecchi root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON
So it seems a two (or more) step process....
On his pc the dir remains actually
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON
even if connected as a normal user to gnome session.
Thanks for your opinions and suggestions.
Gianluca
Assuming you mean that gcecchi logged into the console/gdm and no other user
(including root) was logged in at the time.
Also assuming gcecchi is the username your friend logs in with.
[seeing the data above coming from a root login does not bode well for this
assumption, thanks for including that info.]
When collecting future data I suggest, login as the user and `su -` as needed
to execute commands as root only as required, such as to read /var/log/messages.
...
some of the above information seems strange, like
drwxr-xr-x 4 gcecchi root
Is gcecchi a member of the root group, and if so why?
the command `groups` will tell you all the groups you are a member of.
do you have entries in /etc/fstab for either /media/KINGSTON or /dev/sdb?? if
so then I suggest, comment them out and retry.
After understanding the above, you are probably looking at a udev/hald rules
question.
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