Has USB access improved in FC6?

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Dec 16 14:43:55 UTC 2006


neidorff wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm running a FC3 server now and am looking to move to FC6.  One of the 
> things that I didn't like in FC3 was that when a USB device is mounted, 
> it must be written to by root only.  It seemed that there was nothing 
> that I could do to change this behavior.  (So I have to become root to 
> copy files onto my MP3 player)  Has this been changed/fixed in FC6?  If 
> so, how is mounting and access handled now?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 

In FC6 when I mounted vfat disks, the permissions were set to the person 
logged into the console (GUI). For ext3 disks, the permissions are set 
to whatever permissions you want them to be. So if you want tom to have 
one private directory on the device and mary another directory to place 
files, they work as with other mounted volumes.
IMO, the USB mounting facilities are much better than back in FC3.

Jim
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