Hi Scott,

Sorry about the delay. I've been a bit swamped.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:

> Can you please do the ls's as the user who inserted the drive? Fuse doesn't
> report ANY information as another user, and I'd like to see the permissions.
>
> Scott
>

flyboy@mcbuntu2:~$ ls -la /media/flyboy/usbdisk-sdb1/
total 22
drwx------ 3 flyboy domain users 16384 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-x--- 4 root domain users 4096 Feb 12 14:19 ..
drwx------ 2 flyboy domain users 2048 Dec 22 08:53 Cole's Galaga Presentation

The permissions look good to me in this directory. Other kids can't
browse the contents of each others thumbdrives, however their desktops
fill up with lots of thumb drives icons as students around the school
plug their thumbdrives in. This causes a bit of confusion (e.g. which
of these 12 thumb drives is mine?)

However if I do:

sudo chown flyboy.root /media/flyboy/

Then everything is good e.g. flyboy can see and use his files, and
they don't show up on other students desktops.

Is there a way to chown the user directory in /media upon mounting the device?

John

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Hi Scott,

Did my email make sense?

Thanks!

John

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, john <lists.john@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Sorry about the delay. I've been a bit swamped.
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
>
>> Can you please do the ls's as the user who inserted the drive? Fuse doesn't
>> report ANY information as another user, and I'd like to see the permissions.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
> flyboy@mcbuntu2:~$ ls -la /media/flyboy/usbdisk-sdb1/
> total 22
> drwx------ 3 flyboy domain users 16384 Dec 31 *1969 .
> drwxr-x--- 4 root * domain users *4096 Feb 12 14:19 ..
> drwx------ 2 flyboy domain users *2048 Dec 22 08:53 Cole's Galaga Presentation
>
> The permissions look good to me in this directory. Other kids can't
> browse the contents of each others thumbdrives, however their desktops
> fill up with lots of thumb drives icons as students around the school
> plug their thumbdrives in. This causes a bit of confusion (e.g. which
> of these 12 thumb drives is mine?)
>
> However if *I do:
>
> sudo chown flyboy.root /media/flyboy/
>
> Then everything is good e.g. flyboy can see and use his files, and
> they don't show up on other students desktops.
>
> Is there a way to chown the user directory in /media upon mounting the device?
>
> John
>

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:15:43PM -0800, john wrote:

I have another version of ltspfs for hardy's ltspfs in my ppa. Give that one a
try.

Scott

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Hi Scott,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Scott Balneaves
<sbalneav@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:15:43PM -0800, john wrote:
>
> I have another version of ltspfs for hardy's ltspfs in my ppa. *Give that one a
> try.
>

Yes. This one did the trick for me.

flyboy@mcbuntu2:/media$ ls -la flyboy
total 28
drwxr-x--- 4 flyboy root 4096 Feb 22 09:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Feb 22 09:16 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 root domain users 4096 Oct 5 13:58 floppy0
drwx------ 4 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 usbdisk-sdb1

usbdisk-sdb1 shows owned by root, but as soon as the user try's to
access it the permissions are properly set and everything works as expected.
I vaguely remember that external media is unmounted after a short
period of inactivity so that
kids can pull there drives without have to mess about with un-mounting
them "a la windows".

Thanks for this fix. It's a big help!

John

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