| Summary: | User has no write access to connected empty USB HD partitions formatted as ext3 | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kio | Reporter: | Paul L. <snowhg> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | David Faure <faure> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | finex, greygeek77, hr.denzler, jtamate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | investigated, triaged |
| Version: | 4.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Paul L.
2010-04-13 02:43:40 UTC
> dir /media/disk/backup4 -d drwxr-xr-x 11 user users 4096 9. Apr 11:40 /media/disk/backup4 The owner of backup4 is "user" NOT "root". Example: > cd; cd .kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/; rsync -av --delete . /media/disk/backup4/mail/ ; cd I've observed that USB memory sticks are treated properly. USB Hard Disks, like "My Passport", are not. When I copy directories or files to my USB Hard Disk my ownerships are changed from "jerry:jerry" to "root:root", AND, my permissions are changed to rwxrwxrwx, making the files accessible to the WORLD! When I copy them back to my home account (or any other user's files) the ownership is changed from "root:root" to "jerry:jerry" but the permissions remain as rwxrwxrwx > dir /media/disk/ -d drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 23. Aug 2009 /media/disk/ (ext2) > dir /media/disk/backup4/ -d drwxr-xr-x 11 user users 4096 9. Apr 11:40 /media/disk/backup4/ (ext2) > dir /home/user/ -d drwxr-xr-x 46 user users 4096 15. Apr 11:16 /home/user/ (ext4) I as "root" created "backup4/" and then changed ownership and group so that they are same as in "user/" (commands: chown, chgrp, [chmod]). Now owner "user" can copy files from folder user/ to backup4/ in Linux file systems. (In reply to comment #2) Please disregard my comment. I thought I had formatted "My Passport" to EXT4, but I had not. It was still formatted NTFS, and thus the ownership and permissions were defaulted to and unchangeable from root:root rwxrwxrwx. :( As an EXT4 USB HD it is behaving as I would have expected. The automount feature of a external HDD is managed by HAL (at OS level) and/or Solid (at KDE level). There is a simple solution for it (I use it in my external drivers). Create your contents inside a folder (created by root and changed owner to your user) of the external HDD file system. This simple solution keeps the unix multi-user rights working even if the external HDD is plugged by other user. I'm not sure, but shouldn't the permission settings be hal dependant? Anyway the behaviour described by the reporter is exactly what I expect on a *nix system. I would consider this bug as invalid. Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! |