Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive Message-ID: <20031021122614.GA34890@watt.intra.caraldi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031021071520.4f890bb8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> References: <20031020225226.795d57f0.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <20031021071556.GA22651@watt.intra.caraldi.com> <20031021071520.4f890bb8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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* Paul Murphy: > Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> wrote: > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use > > > it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > > > [...] in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see below -m700 for > > msdos filesystem: > > > > /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos rw,-m700,noauto 0 0 > > fstab: /dev/da0s1 /flash_drive msdos rw,-m775,noauto 0 0 > > > mounted permisions: d--------- 1 root wheel 22016 Dec 31 1979 > flash_drive FWIW you could check if your specific FreeBSD supports the -m switch by looking at the mount_msdosfs man page. > As a side note, the device has a little slider that is supposed to > lock the drive from being written to. Does FreeBSD honour this? Is > this a software or hardware lock? I'm pretty sure in the above case > it is in the unlock position. No, AFAIK the write lock is a hardware lock that has nothing to do with the mount process. Best regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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