Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

[Luis]

This reminded me of something on OS X: If you do a 'Get Info' on an  
attached storage device there is the option (tick box) to ignore the  
ownership permissions on the device. There may be a general setting  
for attached storage devices in Ubuntu, or similar option on one of  
the property tabs once the device is attached.
Gnome has been enhanced with added management features, so this may  
be one of them.
Might need to look see if plugdev has group membership.

Can you get it to work as root?

In fstab, is it mounted with 'auto' or does it display the correct  
filesystem type?

Does it work in 6.0.6 LTS? I've had some issues with 6.10 and USB...

Cheers,

Luis.


On 7 Mar 2007, at 23:36, Rishi Viner wrote:

> On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:43, Bob Warren wrote:
>> As you can see, executable permission has now become independent  
>> of the
>> user. If you try changing this option when the program is on the
>> pendrive itself, it won't work. I tried copying the program to the
>> Desktop and altering the executable permission there. It works.  
>> But if
>> you copy the program back to the pendrive, the executable  
>> permission is
>> removed.
>
> It looks like they are trying to improve security for removable  
> drives...
> shame they are crippling such important functionality! I can't  
> imagine that
> they would do this without some way for the user to manually fix  
> this for a
> program they specifically want to run. Make lots of noise on the  
> ubuntu
> forums and see if you can get an answer.
>
>> I don't know how to alter the permissions of Rev progs on  
>> pendrives from
>> the terminal.
>
> As root user on terminal you could try:
> chmod +x /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86
> or
> chmod 777 /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86
>
> Good luck,
>
> Rishi.
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