On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 12:01:13 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 7/8/16, Evgenii Frolov <frol....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > /media/$USER is root:root drwxr-x---
> >
> > and /media/$USER/$LABEL is $USER:$USER drwx------
> >
> > Is it as intended?
> > And, if not, how could it be changed without my "help"?
>
> While you're waiting for feedback from others, I ran mine for
> comparison. For both /media/$USER and /media/$USER/$LABEL, I get:
>
> drwxr-x---+ root root
^ I spy a plus sign here. Perhaps ACL involvement.
> That's on a super basic debootstrap'ed in Sid Unstable setup where
> I've never altered permissions going that route.
>
> Your one there is obviously missing that one execute permission that
> I'm *a-suming* is helping cause the problem. That's as much as I can
> gather from it. Pretty much about all my memory has ever retained
> about permissions is don't give out any more access permissions than
> is absolutely necessary to perform ordinary, daily computing. It's
> safer for your system that way. :)
Cheers,
David.
