From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 05:26:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D804716A4B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:26:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.caraldi.com (caraldi.com [62.212.102.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE29C43F85 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbq@caraldi.com) Received: from watt.intra.caraldi.com (watt.intra.caraldi.com [192.168.100.101]) by mail.caraldi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7791020B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by watt.intra.caraldi.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2738785; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:26:17 +0200 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031021122614.GA34890@watt.intra.caraldi.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031020225226.795d57f0.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> <20031021071556.GA22651@watt.intra.caraldi.com> <20031021071520.4f890bb8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031021071520.4f890bb8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:26:20 -0000 * Paul Murphy: > Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: > > > * Paul Murphy: > > > > > I _can_ read/write to it as root, but I would really like to use > > > it as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > > > [...] in /etc/fstab you may adjust the mode, see below -m700 for > > msdos filesystem: > > > > /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos rw,-m700,noauto 0 0 > > fstab: /dev/da0s1 /flash_drive msdos rw,-m775,noauto 0 0 > > > mounted permisions: d--------- 1 root wheel 22016 Dec 31 1979 > flash_drive FWIW you could check if your specific FreeBSD supports the -m switch by looking at the mount_msdosfs man page. > As a side note, the device has a little slider that is supposed to > lock the drive from being written to. Does FreeBSD honour this? Is > this a software or hardware lock? I'm pretty sure in the above case > it is in the unlock position. No, AFAIK the write lock is a hardware lock that has nothing to do with the mount process. Best regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/