Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:49:53 +0200 SM wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > > the plugdev group. > > Or just install pmount. Plug the

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 19:49:53 +0200, SM wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > > the plugdev group. > > Or just install pmount. Plug th

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread SM
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > the plugdev group. Or just install pmount. Plug the device in, do "dmesg | tail" to check the device and "pmoun

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:07:20 -0800, keitho wrote: > Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. > > This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto > mount as well: > > UUID=9419-5112/usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask= 0 0 > > T

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Nov 2011 at 16:07:20 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. > > This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount > as well: > > UUID=9419-5112/usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,uma

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread keitho
Thank you Sven- The wikipedia article was just what I needed :-) Keith > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > Hi, > >> I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing >> in >> man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pa

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hi, > I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in > man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pam ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask man 2 umask is in manpages-dev in case tha

Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-26 Thread keitho
Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount as well: UUID=9419-5112 /usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask= 0 0 The UUID is obtained via blkid, the uid and gid are for my keith account.

Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-26 Thread keitho
Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount as well: UUID=9419-5112 /usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask= 0 0 The UUID is obtained via blkid, the uid and gid are for my keith account.