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

[Guus Snijders]

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