Communicate the permission for userspace mounting of portable storage
If another person only has userspace permissions on a machine (no root access), the only way to grant that other person to write on your protable disk, is one of the following:
1. Know their UID/GID up front, and chmod some place for the write.
2. Reformat to a filesystem without permission storage (FAT16/FAT32).
3. Do a chmod for all files on disk, to allow everybody to write everywhere.
All of these options have disadvantages and option 2 is currently the most common solution. This blueprint is here to collect information on possible solutions and try to explain why this really is a problem.
Blueprint information
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Related branches
Related bugs
| Bug #121900: Auto-mounted USB thumb drive only has user write permission if FAT16 or FAT32 | Invalid |
| Bug #159554: Have pmount check for a filesystem flag and mount with uid=/gid= options | New |
Sprints
Whiteboard
cody-somerville: How is this related to launchpad?
bneijt: Good point, it's not. Just misfiled I guess. Currently this idea is not going anywhere: filesystem doesn't want the extension and pmount needs the extension to make the right choice. Allot of people don't like this idea, but I'm moving it to pmount anyway.
