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hald and write permissions for external drives

Asked by Marcin Giedz

Hi

I've got external RAID (kind of NAS) with ext3/ext4 file system. When I plug it in USB system finds correctly and mounts device under /media/disk with hald: mounted /dev/sdd1 on behalf of uid 1001 (1001 is my local id). However when I open Dolphin/Konquerror I can't create any file/dir because of "Permission denied". Device is mounted under /media/disk with root:root and 755.

Of course I can do: sudo chmod 777 /media/disk but this is not a solution for "regular users" who don't know about the terminal. Is there any way to perhaps create policy for hald to change default permission for external drive based on vendor id for example?

I know that the simplest way is to format with VFAT but I don't want to do this.

Thanks
Marcin

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Not really an idea, because a unix filesystem keeps it's original permissions, which permissions the mount point has is irrelevant for this matter, but maybe PolicyKit can help.
Without terminal policy management is done via PolicyKit GUI (in system administration menu).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/PolicyKitIntegration
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/

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