On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick. The fine print on the package > says it has SecureAccess software. It is so secure it prevents me from > writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus > infested, scourge of the Earth software.a
Calm down! > > fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$ ls -l > total 8416 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 9 2018 SanDiskSecureAccess > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8600360 Nov 4 2016 SanDiskSecureAccessV3.01_win.exe > fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$ what does dmesg say when you plug this in? I assume it will be just added as mass storage. > > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /media/usb0 > chown: changing ownership of '/media/usb0': Operation not permitted > sudo chown fred /media/usb0 Would that work better? > Attempts to add write permission are also denied. again since root owns this. Did you use sudo or tried from the root account? > > Is there any way to disable or remove the SecureAccess software? sure rm -rf /media/usb0/SanDiskSecureAccess rm /media/usb0/SanDiskSecureAccessV3.01_win.exe again it's owned by root, so use sudo. > Best regards, > Fred > -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
