usb write permissions

Someone, I don't remember who, was haveing problems writeing to USB
drives as user. I dicovered that I was haveing the same problem and
looked into it. I think I've got it figured out.

My original fstab contained a line like this:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

I changed to look like this:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto,gid=100,umask=002 0 0

This causes usb drives to be mounted root:users with permissions of 775.

You will need to make certain you belong to the group "users", I though
all distos set up users to belong to that group, but I found out I
didn't belong. Don't know if it was a fluke of NLD or I accidentally
messed with it, but check anyway.

Jim Gribbin

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Received on Sun Oct 30 23:38:48 2005