problem with permissions of usb key

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Hello all.

historical preface:-)
I have a friend of mine pc where, due to virus/dialers, etc I removed
windows and installed fedora.
He only has a modem for internet connection, so I initially installed f7
test3 to have him see the flavour and let me know about it.
All was ok for his needs (internet, text editing, cd ripping, digikam, etc)
and so the pc remained at that stage.

Only problem he reported lately was that when inserting an usb key, with
normal user profile the access was read only, while logged as root had also
write access.

So some time ago I updated the system directly via dvd to f8 (actually f8
rc3: MAGIC ALL WENT SMOOTHLY!!! COMPLIMENTS!) and then manually installed
updated packages (till mid january).
But this problem still remains...
Any opinion about the cause to investigate: hal / old config file or else?
I compared the process with the same key with mine (also f8) and his pc.
Both report in log file the same message such as (note the last line):

Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 3
Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1
choice
Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
devices
Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
usb-storage
Jan 26 17:53:09 tekkaman kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston
DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3987456 512-byte hardware
sectors (2042 MB)
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache:
write through
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3987456 512-byte hardware
sectors (2042 MB)
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache:
write through
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable
disk
Jan 26 17:53:14 tekkaman kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type
0
Jan 26 17:53:15 tekkaman gnome-keyring-daemon[2458]: adding removable
location: volume_uuid_E0FD_1813 at /media/KINGSTON
Jan 26 17:53:15 tekkaman gnome-keyring-daemon[7222]: adding removable
location: volume_uuid_E0FD_1813 at /media/KINGSTON
Jan 26 17:53:15 tekkaman hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500


but actually on his pc the directory /media/KINGSTON is writable only by
root
Doing an iterated "ls -l" on my pc I see this sequence while inserting the
usb key:

[root at tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD

[root at tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-02-13 23:47 KINGSTON

[root at tekkaman valeria]# ll /media
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root  4096 2007-12-30 01:23 IPOD
drwxr-xr-x 4 gcecchi root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON

So it seems a two (or more) step process....
On his pc the dir remains actually
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON

even if connected as a normal user to gnome session.
Thanks for your opinions and suggestions.
Gianluca
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