group permission problems for devices mounted in /media

john lists.john at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 17:06:15 GMT 2010


Hi Scott,

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:14:17PM -0800, john wrote:
>
>> Here's what it looks like:
>>
>> /media/flyboy$ ls -al
>> ls: cannot access TRAVELDRIVE: Permission denied
>> total 12
>>
>> drwxr-x---  4 root domain users 4096 Feb  8 15:30 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 40 root root         4096 Feb  8 13:57 ..
>> d?????????  ? ?    ?               ?            ? TRAVELDRIVE
>
> How are you doing this ls?  As the user who inserted the drive?

I did the 'ls' as another user. Not the user who inserted the drive.

John



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