USB flash drives are visible to everyone

[Scott Balneaves]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0600, John Hansen wrote:
> We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chroot, USB drives are
> mounting successfully. However, now anyone logged onto a thin client can see
> other users USB sticks mounted on their desktops. Only the user of that USB
> stick can read the device, but it appears on everyones desktop that is logged in.

> Any suggestions?

Are all your students in the same primary group?  Usually this is what causes
this.  Typically, in modern Linuxes, each user should have their own primary
group the same as their userid.

Scott

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