need to unplug USB drive

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 16:36, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> This might help:
>
> I stuck dsl-n (Damn Small Linux - not) Live CD in the laptop, mounted
> the USB drive, changed the 'group' ownership to 'users' (keeping the
> 'user' as root), added myself to the group 'users' on my Kubuntu box
> (logged out and back in again - for the group change to take effect) and
> now I can write to the USB drive on both the laptop and the Kubuntu box
> (and I suppose, any Linux box as all distros have the group 'users' as
> standard - just need to be added to group 'users').
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel

Summary:
Second user (the one that didn't plug the stick in) couldn't write to a USB 
stick, nor unmount it.

Thanks Nigel.

I tried that, *but without the dsl-n live CD* and I wasn't allowed to change 
the group ownership of the stick.
	sudo chgrp users /media/usbdisk   ---> "Opération non permise"
Actually I couldn't even change the group ownership of a single file on the 
stick, although the same syntax worked for a folder belonging in the 2nd 
user's home.

Having read something in 
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialManagingGroups.html ,
I also modified group in /etc/fstab, to no avail.
Btw under Suse 9.3 the stick gets mounted with group users, and there not even 
a line for it in fstab.

Why did you use dsl-n, it is hard for me to belive it is (or any live CD) an 
essential component of your manipulations.
Did I miss something else?

Greetings		Perry




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