18 Nov
2008
18 Nov
'08
7:50 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
after rule changes to udev, a "udevcontrol reload_config" will do the
trick.
whenever you have changed your user credentials (new group etc.), you
will have to log out and back in again to get the benefit.
in the old days, reboots used to be necessary to add new hardware, but
since we now do cpu and ram hotswap, the only excuse for a cold restart
i could think of would be a change of power supply... ;)
/me runs
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jörn
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On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:30 -0600, David M.
Creswick wrote:
The solution appears to have been to reboot because now I can run
mkdosfs as normal user. On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:53:17 +0700
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I ran this command:
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G floppy username
On Fedora9 at least the floppy group does not control removeable disks.
I also tried the disk group but nothing...
Any other suggestions?
Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't find anything online that gives me a way to run /sbin/mkdosfs as
>> a normal user.
>>
>> Is it just that I need to add the user to the mkdosfs group or something
>> similar?
>>
>>
> are you sure the program itself prevents that? my guess is it's the
> device you want to create the file on.
>
> should be a matter of creating a new group disk_removable or something,
> writing an udev rule to give it r/w access to all floppies and usb
> sticks and add yourself to that group.
>
>
>
Thanks for the tip.
I'm working on it now.
However this seems like a major oversight from a Linux on the desktop
perspective that you need to be root user to format a removable disk. It
would make sense that Nautilus or Konqueror would have built in support
by now.
Does anyone have experience with any distros/apps allowing this as
normal user?
It seems like it should be a no brainer.
I think Joern is correct in that all you need is read+write permissions
on the device node. Under debian etch, the group is set to "floppy" for
device nodes of removable usb storage devices. I imagine other distros
do something similar. So the user should just have to be a member of
the floppy (or equivalent) group to run mkdosfs on the device.