USB device permissions... again

[Bill Marcum]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:21:36 +0000, Gabriel Dragffy 
  <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> I have an external hard drive formatted with FAT32, when connected (and
> a user belonging to the plugdev group is logged in) then it get's
> auto-mounted and gets the permissions 700 for whoever plugged it in.
>
> Is there a simple way of adjusting what permissions this particular
> device gets mounted with?
>
The vfat file system does not have owners and permissions for each file, so 
they are set when the file system is mounted. Use the umask option in fstab.

> Furthermore I decided I wanted to change the format to ReiserFS, I wiped
> all paritions and created a single one and formatted it with Reiser 3.
> When mounted this device could only be accessed by root, even though
> other users were in the plugdev group. I reformatted and recreated the
> partitions and no change. It seems like a completely pointless system of
> mounting it so only root can access it. What's the deal?
> A way to change that behaviour would also be appreciated.
>
Mount the drive, chown and chmod the directories.

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