Can't write to USB stick without sudo

Ronnie Tucker ronnie at ronnietucker.co.uk
Sun Aug 18 15:45:08 UTC 2013


I'm running Kubuntu 13.04 with KDE 4.10.5


On 18 August 2013 15:02, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 18 Aug 2013 14:25:51 Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that when I insert a USB stick (formatted to
> > FAT32) I have to use sudo with Dolphin to write/erase files to/from the
> USB
> > stick.
> >
> > I've tried erasing the stick in the KDE Partition Manager to FAT32 and
> it's
> > always the same.
> >
> > Even changing the permissions (by right clicking in the Dolphin window
> then
> > choosing properties) does nothing. They always revert back to root being
> > the owner and that others can't modify the contents.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > No wonder I have a Sherry at Christmas!  :D
>
> What version of KDE/Kubuntu are you running?
>
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