I'm not saying that drives and their files shouldn't be initially mounted as read-only; I just want to know how to override this.
I've got a file here named pic1.png. It's on a 4 GIG removable hp flash drive. When I right-click on it, it says the owner has read and write priviledges. It also says that root and others have only read- only priviledges. I'm trying to change this, but it isn't letting me. (btw, I'm in dreamlinux right now) Generally speaking, I want all of my files to be with no restrictions for anyone. So I become root and use chmod 777 on the file. But the files attributes remain unchanged. Then I tried chown on the file and that does not work. So then I try using both chmod and chown on the drive itself (/media/MYDATA). That isn't working either. pic1.png is still read-only for root and others. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to change that. I want to be able to access my files from any live or not live istrubition, not just the distribution that originally created the file. On Feb 8, 12:11 pm, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 09:00 -0800, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > > > LOL. I must respectfully disagree. Security is supposed to hassle > > others, not the owner of the files. I doubt that someone who steals > > or finds my mp3 player would have any problems accessing the files. > > The only one having problems is me :( > > Before you condemn distributions for making decisions not to auto mount > USB drives you may want to watch this video > here:http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/1742246/USB-Autorun-Attacks-... > > When you listen to this, and keep in mind this pointed more to Ubuntu > 10.10, it makes a good point. Linux developers are extremely aware of > the issues this video points out and are working to fix these problems > but auto-mounting and media can create serious risks so many opt not to > auto-mount and instead ask you what you want to do instead. I set my > default to ask first in Ubuntu before I ever watched this video, but > I've always been a bit more security conscious. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
