Local devices appear on all desktops

[ekul taylor]

Marc,

Thank you so much for the quick reply.  That fixed the issue right up

Luke Taylor

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Marc Gariépy <gariepy.marc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Luke,
>
> To fix your problem you need to add a script to fix perm of the
> /media/$USER because your user all belong to the same group.
>
> * Install perl-suid on the server
>
> then create a script in /etc/ltspfs/mounter.d (you may have to create that
> directory) on the application server
> and a script called fixperm inside it, containing:
>
> == cut here ==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> if ( $ARGV[0] eq 'add' ) {
>        $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
>        $user=getpwuid($<);
>        system "chown", "$user.root","//media//$user";
> }
> == cut here ==
>
> then you have to set permission 4755 on that script
>
> Marc.
>
>   On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM, ekul taylor <ekul.taylor at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hello all,
>>
>> I apologize if this question has been answered before.  I searched the
>> archives but I didn't find anything.
>>
>> I just updated our edubuntu server to karmic and unlike before I have
>> decided to use the official gnome edubuntu desktop rather then the minimal
>> xfce config I was using before.  Local devices are working great except the
>> icons appear for all users.  Is there a simple way to limit the device icon
>> to only display for the user that plugged it in?  It isn't a security issue
>> since other users cannot access the device but it is confusing since usb
>> drives are listed as /dev/sdb on all the thin clients.  This means multiple
>> sdb devices are on the desktop and it's easy to select the wrong one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Luke Taylor
>>
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