[lucid] how to mount USB storage with correct permissions?

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Oct 29 06:57:47 UTC 2010


shawn wilson wrote:
> What reinhold said is the proper way to do things (add yourself to
> the disk group).

No, adding someone to the disk group is NOT the proper way. If I were a 
member of that group I could by mistake wipe entire disks with any 
command that would write to the device file of the disk / partition even 
without the use of sudo. The permissions for access to files on the disk 
MUST be handled by the kernel after mounting the partition.


Nils




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