Problem mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: Problem mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 1:34 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Your message suggest your wife's user name needs
> to be added to the
> > disk group or some other appropriate group.
> 
> The appropriate group definitely isn't
> "disk". A user in the disk group 
> would have direct write access to the raw device nodes of
> all disks. 
> A "normal" user in the disk group could easily
> overwrite entire disks.
> 
> 
Ok. I see that group shows disk:x:6: without my uid on it. I thought I had my uid or added it at one time but haven't looked at group since installing intrepid. So, what is the appropriate group listing in this case. I would like to know for my education. In my case I wouldn't feel threatened as I'm user, admin, root whatever and responsible for what I do. But that's my problem-:)) Interested in your re[ly. Thanks
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net