[K12OSN] Local CD/DVD and USB Drive Problems From Terminal

[murrah boswell]

Hello Peter,


> "Install perl-suid
> then create a script in /etc/ltspfs/mounter.d (you may have to create that
> directory) on the application server
> and a script called fixperm inside it, containing:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> if ( $ARGV[0] eq 'add' ) {
>     $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
>     $user=getpwuid($<);
>     system "chown", "$user.root","/media/$user";
> }
> 
> then you have to set permission 4755 on that script
> so that the script is setuid root as the script is run as the user and it
> wouldn't normally have the right to change the permission on that directory
> if all goes well, the directory in /media/ will change to $user.root when
> something is plugged and will then only appear on the user's desktop."

The USB stick got mounted  and

ls -al /media

...
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 1969-12-31 17:00 NEW VOLUME

The script didn't work, the USB stick still appeared on my TC desktop. What is it that triggers ltspfsd to run this script? BTW, I 
am logged in as root when I plug the stick in.


Regards,
Murrah Boswell

> 
> I haven't tried this myself yet; YMMV.
> 
> HTH
> Peter
> 
>> Regards,
>> Murrah Boswell
>>
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> murrah boswell wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I am using the K12Linux 10 Live CD booted on a server from a USB stick!
>>>>
>>>> I read that K12Linux provides access to local devices like the 
>>>> CD/DVD drive but when I put a music cd into the local drive and try 
>>>> to play it, I get an error about not being able to mount /dev/sr0 
>>>> because of Permission denied.
>>>>
>>>> How can I enable the clients to utilize local resources like the 
>>>> CD/DVD drive and USB dive?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Murrah Boswell
>>>>
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