Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 21:29:46, AG wrote: > > Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user > account needs to be manually added to. Is this an issue between > balancing convenience and security or is this something that is > counter-intuitive from the userland experience? AFA

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:29:46 +, AG wrote: > On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: >> >> I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' >> time. I'll add user to some more groups then. >> >> >> > Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user > accoun

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread geertsky
Hi Lisi, have a look at ls -l /dev/cdrom to mount /dev/cdrom you need r-x permissions or maybe even rwx, but w is going to be pretty useless... Also, /etc/udev/rules.d/ contains rules which device the permissions of for instance your cdrom,cdrw,sdcard ed But google a udev manual, itś too extens

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' time. I'll add user to some more groups then. Lisi Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user account needs to be manually added to. Is this an issue between

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:28:44 Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I would have tried adding the users to the relevant group if I knew > > which the relevant group was! > > (...) > > Not sure if this will help, but on lenny (and GNOME) my user is member >

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > I have googled the error message, but got no hits: > > Your search - Rejected .. ”/usr/sbin/hald “)) - did not match any > documents. You googled for the wrong text excerpt ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=interface%3D%E2%80

SOLVED (I think) Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On 3 March 2011 14:35, Lisi Reisz wrote: > When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW > drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user > and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera;  Let alone the > camera!) I get the following error message: > >

mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera; Let alone the camera!) I get the following error message: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type=”method