External hard drives in linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 11:44:29 -0500, Little Girl wrote:
>Colin Law wrote:
>>I just use sudo to create the folders I need on the drive and chown
>>them to the appropriate user.
>Does that give you and your programs full access to what's in those
>folders whenever the drive is plugged in?

The user doesn't get "full access" to /home/, but the user has got "full
access" to /home/$USER/ ;).

$ touch test /home/
$ touch test /home/$USER/

The click to mount feature's security policy likely follows the same
access approach.