> I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick. The fine print on the package > says it has SecureAccess software. It is so secure it prevents me from > writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus > infested, scourge of the Earth software.
Yuck! > fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$ ls -l > total 8416 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 9 2018 SanDiskSecureAccess > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8600360 Nov 4 2016 SanDiskSecureAccessV3.01_win.exe > fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$ How did you mount it? > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /media/usb0 > chown: changing ownership of '/media/usb0': Operation not permitted > Attempts to add write permission are also denied. What does `dmesg` say? > Is there any way to disable or remove the SecureAccess software? Others have suggested reformatting, but maybe a more constructive path forward is to return the bugger, complaining that it doesn't work. Stefan