Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

Tue Oct 21 00:16:02 PDT 2003

* Paul Murphy:

>  I _can_ read/write to  it as root, but I would really  like to use it
> as a non-root user. Any thoughts as to why this is happening?

See FreeBSD  FAQ[1].  Also, in /etc/fstab  you may adjust the  mode, see
below -m700 for msdos filesystem:

/dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbkey msdos rw,-m700,noauto 0 0

If  /dev  is  mounted via  devfs  (FreeBSD  5),  you  may want  to  edit
/etc/devfs.conf and add a line like below:

perm da0s1 0666

Cheers,
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://caraldi.com/jbq/

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT