flash drive mounted under root

[oleksandr korneta]

Thanks to everyone who bothered to reply. I managed to solve the problem 
and the credit for help goes to Chun-Chung Chen (who appears to be 
reading the list but not signed up for it, so he mailed to me 
separately). The problem seems to be with  the gnome-mount package, 
particularly with broken gconf parameters for the one. It is not clear 
whether the configuration was broken when installing the gnome-mount 
package itself or by some other package. In order to fix the glitch with 
permission on mounted external storage I had to add "mount_options" key 
to the /system/storage/default_options/vfat/ path. The key has to be of 
type List with the items of type String. The problem is resolved by 
adding just one value to the list, namely "uid=".
This role of key is described on gnome-mount man page, although this 
page seems to be rather outdated.

Later it was found that simple reinstallation of the gnome-mount package 
solves the problem and similar keys are added for many other file systems.


> 
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:37 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>> I'm not sure when this began, but I just discovered that all my usb
>> storage devices are mounted in a way that root appears to be the owner
>> of all the files. Now I can't  write anything to my flash drive, unless
>> I open the root console. I'm sure It wasn't like this before, and I
>> suspect it happened after one of the updates. Is there a way to fix this
>> manually?
>>
>> this is FC6 here.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> regards,
>> Oleksandr Korneta
>>
>> /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
>>
> 

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./