Sloppy workaround for unreported bug: floppy mounts with root owner

[Andre Campos Rodovalho]

Sorry again, you need to give permition from the root folder too. *$ chmod
-R 777 /media/user1/*



2015-04-19 9:52 GMT-03:00 Andre Campos Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>
:

> Forget about it. The problem is that user2 does not have access to user1
> directories. I guess giving a *$ chmod -R 777 /media/user1/disk*
> solves this problem...
>
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> 2015-04-19 9:50 GMT-03:00 Andre Campos Rodovalho <
> andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>:
>
> "The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid."
>>
>> This means the directory does not exists isn't it? You can create it and
>> give ownership to user, and maybe a 777 mod...
>>
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>>
>> 2015-04-18 21:24 GMT-03:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>  On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC.  He also has
>>> a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few familiar programs,
>>> and wants to ferry some files back and forth between the two PC's using
>>> floppies.
>>>
>>> This should be no problem, except that the floppy mounts in Lubuntu with
>>> root ownership, and only root can change content, so ordinary users cannot
>>> copy files to or edit files on a floppy.
>>>
>>> Someone somewhere (!) reported that the behavior could be duplicated in
>>> a virtual machine with no actual floppy drive.
>>>
>>> Design behavior should be that the floppy mounts with the logged-in user
>>> as owner, which is what happens with USB flash drives.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, this is a new instance of a regression in the
>>> kernel and/or udisks2 that has previously been reported and fixed.
>>>
>>> See for instance:
>>> udisks2 mounts floppy disk as root
>>> <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63849>
>>> Bug fix released <http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/297>
>>> udisks2: mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal
>>> users) <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190>
>>>
>>> I couldn't figure out how to get floppies to mount with the logged-in
>>> user as owner, but I do have a sloppy workaround that sets a permission to
>>> allows anyone to change content on the floppy.  This was inspired by
>>> comment #11 at Floppies mount fine, but can't seem to edit them in
>>> Xubuntu 14.04 <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222487&page=2>.
>>>
>>> The sloppy workaround in my case is to add this line to /etc/fstab:
>>> /dev/fd0 /media/user1/disk vfat
>>> rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
>>>
>>> This will work fine in a one-user installation, but it fails in a
>>> multi-user installation.  With user2 as the logged in user, clicking on
>>> Floppy Disk in pcmanfm to mount it causes the error:
>>>     The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid.
>>>
>>> I would be happy to hear about it if someone can come up with an
>>> improved workaround!
>>>
>>>
>>>  Hi
>>> It should be possible to run:
>>>
>>> sudo umount /path/to/floppy
>>> sudo mkdir /media/floppy
>>>
>>> fd0 was taken from your e-mail... it may be different on other systems..
>>> sudo mount -o users /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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