On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 15:38:07 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 08/11/2016 à 00:54, Brian a écrit : > > > >When blkid is run as root it creates the file > >/run/blkid/blkid.tab. A user running blkid only gets to see the contents > >of blkid.tab. > > That does not appear to be completely correct. > If I run blkid as a standard user after plugging a USB drive, it lists the > USB drive partition, although blikd.tab was not modified. > > $ /sbin/blkid | grep sdb > /dev/sdb1: LABEL="USB DISK" UUID="48DB-E077" TYPE="vfat" > > $ grep sdb /etc/blkid.tab || echo not found > not found
As the manual says: CACHE_FILE=<path> Overrides the standard location of the cache file. This setting can be overridden by the environment variable BLKID_FILE. Default is /run/blkid/blkid.tab, or /etc/blkid.tab on systems without a /run directory. > However note that /dev/sdb* is owned by group "floppy" and my standard user > account is a member of this group. If you are on Jessie (and have not altered any udev rules) you have a broken system. Please post the output of 'ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d'. -- Brian.
