flash drive mounted under root

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri May 18 03:59:39 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 21:28 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
> damned, it is driving me crazy. /var/log/messages says
> "mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 501" This is my uid!!! I mount the
> drive, but the root appears to be the owner and I have no write
> access!
> I even made /media world-writable - no difference. 

On FC6?  I don't see that problem.  I'm seeing things mounted with my
user ID but root as the group ID.  I can still do what I want with the
device (mount, unmount, play with the files, etc.).

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