Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

Paul Murphy pnmurphy at cogeco.ca
Mon Oct 20 19:52:37 PDT 2003


usbd.conf snippet:

device "Flash Drive"
	devname "umass0"
	vendor 0x0ea0
	product 0x2168
	release 0x0200
	attach "/sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /flash_drive"

permissions of '/flash_drive' before mounting:

drwxrwxrwx    2 root  wheel      512 Oct 20 22:27 flash_drive


permissions of '/flash_drive' after mounting:

d---------    1 root  wheel    22016 Dec 31  1979 flash_drive

(notice the date too!)


 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?


[earth] /: usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), VIA(0x0000), rev
1.00 port 1 powered
 port 2 addr 2: power 200 mA, config 1, Flash Disk      (0x2168), USB   
 (0x0ea0), rev 2.00

[earth] /: uname -a
FreeBSD earth.upton.net 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Fri Oct 17 17:05:59
EDT 2003     root at earth.upton.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EARTH_ACPI  i386

/var/log/messages snippet:

Oct 20 22:41:55 earth /kernel: umass0: USB      Flash Disk      , rev
2.00/2.00, addr 2 
Oct 20 22:41:55 earth /kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0
target 0 lun 0 
Oct 20 22:41:55 earth /kernel: da0: <OTi Flash Disk 2.00> Removable
Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
Oct 20 22:41:55 earth /kernel: da0: 650KB/s transfers 
Oct 20 22:41:55 earth /kernel: da0: 125MB (256000 512 byte sectors: 64H
32S/T 125C)


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