Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2014-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:14:36 -0700, Joseph wrote: > If I remove the mounting line from fstab they mount with correct > permission "joseph:users" but the mount point is reference as UUID and > it makes it hard to reference it in bash scripts. MOUNTPOINT=$(mount | awk '/^\/dev\/sdb1/ {print $3}')

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Joseph
On 12/31/13 12:03, Bruce Hill wrote: [snip] The blkid output would have shown this device, it's UUID, and filesystem. At any rate, for my flash drives I want them mounted with perms for rw for user mingdao, so I put something like this in /etc/fstab: baruch ~ # blkid /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: LABE

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 09:06:38AM -0700, Joseph wrote: > > Thank you for the hints, here is the output of: tail -f /var/log/messages > My line if fstab is: > /dev/sdb1 /media/stickautonoauto,rw,user > and this USB below file are mounted as root:root (not joseph:users)

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 31.12.2013 um 10:31 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 31/12/2013 04:30, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 31.12.2013 um 01:38 > > schrieb Neil Bothwick : > > > >> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:52:56 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > For some reason or another the system doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2013 18:06, Joseph wrote: > On 12/31/13 10:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 30/12/2013 19:22, Joseph wrote: >>> On 12/30/13 17:36, Randolph Maaßen wrote: >>> [snip] > > With the line in fstab: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/stickauto > noauto,rw,users >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Joseph
On 12/31/13 10:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/12/2013 19:22, Joseph wrote: On 12/30/13 17:36, Randolph Maaßen wrote: [snip] With the line in fstab: /dev/sdb1 /media/stickautonoauto,rw,users 0 0 Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that e

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/12/2013 19:22, Joseph wrote: > On 12/30/13 17:36, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> With the line in fstab: >>> >>> /dev/sdb1 /media/stickautonoauto,rw,users >>> 0 0 >>> >>> Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that >>> even as >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2013 04:30, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31.12.2013 um 01:38 > schrieb Neil Bothwick : > >> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:52:56 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: >> For some reason or another the system doesn't like my fstab entry: /dev/sdb1 /media/stickauto >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 31.12.2013 um 01:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:52:56 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > For some reason or another the system doesn't like my fstab entry: > > > /dev/sdb1 /media/stickauto > > > noauto,rw,users 0 0 > > > > AFAIK the option

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:52:56 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > For some reason or another the system doesn't like my fstab entry: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/stickauto > > noauto,rw,users 0 0 > > AFAIK the option to permit user mount is "user" and not "users". Could > this cause the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 07:42:33PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > > chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt > chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: > Operation not permitted > > file owner

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Joseph
On 12/30/13 17:36, Randolph Maaßen wrote: [snip] With the line in fstab: /dev/sdb1 /media/stickautonoauto,rw,users 0 0 Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that even as root. When I remove this like from fstab. The USB stick are mounting c

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.12.2013 um 21:12 schrieb Joseph : > For some reason or another the system doesn't like my fstab entry: > /dev/sdb1 /media/stickauto > noauto,rw,users 0 0 AFAIK the option to permit user mount is "user" and not "users". Could this cause the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/12/30 Joseph : > On 12/30/13 10:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [snip] > >>> I too ran the chown command on my USB flash and got the same >>> response as you did: >>> >>> localhost001 media # chown cru:users flash-drive1/ >>> chown: changing ownership of ‘flash-drive1/’: Operati

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Joseph
On 12/30/13 10:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] I too ran the chown command on my USB flash and got the same response as you did: localhost001 media # chown cru:users flash-drive1/ chown: changing ownership of ‘flash-drive1/’: Operation not permitted drwxr-xr-x 7

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Edward M
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:38:03 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/12/2013 09:51, Edward M wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700 > > Joseph wrote: > > > >> After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > >> > >> chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/12/2013 09:51, Edward M wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700 > Joseph wrote: > >> After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: >> >> chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt >> chown: changing ownership of >> ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Edward M
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700 Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > > chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt > chown: changing ownership of > ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted > > file ownership i

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Joseph
On 12/29/13 23:05, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [snip] >> file ownership is: >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar 6 2013 Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt >> > >Is it mounted Read Only? It's the only thing I can think of. I'm not >sure if that would keep it from changing it if it is either. > >Dal

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Joseph
On 12/29/13 21:41, Dale wrote: Joseph wrote: After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted file ownership is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 ro

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread covici
Joseph wrote: > On 12/29/13 21:41, Dale wrote: > >Joseph wrote: > >> After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > >> > >> chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: > >> changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: > >> Operation not pe

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Joseph
On 12/29/13 21:41, Dale wrote: Joseph wrote: After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted file ownership is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 ro

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > > chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: > changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: > Operation not permitted > > file ownership is: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar

[gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-29 Thread Joseph
After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted file ownership is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar 6 2013 Ancient-Electric