Re: [arch-general] [Device Auto-mounting] HAL, KDE4.4 and tight default permissions

On 10-02-10 13:10, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

Hello, I have a small problem with default permissions of Automounted Removable Devices. Whenever I mount it via KDE4.4's Auto-mounter. it sets all files to be owned by root.

$ ls -la /media/Backup/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 10 16:07 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 10 17:30 .. drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 10 16:07 lost+found [...] $ cat /etc/mtab /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

This is normal behavior on all "Unix" filesystems AFAIK. The root of a filesystem always belongs to root. Try creating a directory on it and then modify the permissions/owner of it. That should work fine. HTH mvg, Guus