[kde-linux] Unmounting USB Key (not root)

[SnapafunFrank]

James White wrote:

>On September 27, 2005 11:02 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote:
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>>I left this alone for a while hoping that someone more knowledgeable
>>than I would answer.
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>>But, strictly as a newbie, I still think that " OWNER="root" " says it
>>all ????
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>Yeah, one would certainly think so.  But no, it isn't that simple.  
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>I have changed the permissions manually on both the /dev/RottenKey1 and the 
>media/JAMES_KEY entry to match what I have set in the 10-udev.rule.
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>   chmod james:usb /dev/RottenKey1
>   chmod james:usb /media/JAMES_KEY
>   KERNEL="sd[a-z][0-9]*", NAME="RottenKey%n", OWNER="james", GROUP="usb",
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Strickly a newbie still, but what is with " chmod " ~ should that not be 
" chown " ????????????

>   MODE="0777"
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>So now WHERE is it getting the idea that the owner is "root" and the group is 
>"user"?
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>No, I suspect that I am trying to GEEK this solution together when I should be 
>USERING it.  This is, after all, a KDE automounting solution.  Maybe there is 
>a configuration switch in a user-friendly menu somewhere?
>
>I dunno.  Grrr... it is too user-friendly!   And I'm not a user!  I'm a 
>TECH! ;-)     
>
>m'aidez!
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