Carlos F. Lange wrote: > On Thu January 3 2008 17:44:45 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >>> And in case I connect it to someone else's machine, it will be >>> mounted with however is user UID in their machine, which might not >>> be the current user and then the permissions are not right, etc. >>> >> then make the owner of the partition "users" >> >> ie: chmod users:users /mnt/<name> >> >> and "anyone" in users can access it. >> > > For that I need to be root, which in the general case neither me nor the > owner of the machine may be. That is the convenience of the vfat > partition that Hal mounts as owned by the currently active user, as > with the "users" option of mount. > > Can I set something on my USB ext2 partition to tell Hal to automount it > as owned by the user? > > Given that it's entirely possible to have multiple users logged in at the same time, which user would own it?
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