USB external disk write permission. What have I done wrong?

[Derek Broughton]

Rashkae wrote:

> chaning ownership on /dev devices will also give users write permission
> on the raw device.. This is generally bad, since there is little reason
> why a user should write directly to the device.  

Well, it kind of depends on the device - there are all sorts of cases where
users _do_ need write permission on the raw device (but generally NOT
partitions!_, but this should have been handled by udev or some user-mode
package you've installed (ie, as I said, somebody went to a lot of trouble
to figure out what permissions each device should have).

> And where I get my info?  (yes I know Derek, this is Karl, sorry I'm
> replying in your reply).  

No problem!

> My gods man, you got some balls asking me that on this list.

<snort/>
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derek