[Eug-lug] Linux- Mac OS X file exchange: This sounds right

[Allen Brown]

Here is one way to do it.

/etc/fstab:
   /dev/sda1   /media/flash1     auto    noauto,user,owner    0 0

Of course this means I have to explicitly mount it.  But
when I do, *I* own it, not root.

It is tempting to also use nosuid, but there is a warning on
the mount page.
   nosuid Do  not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier
          bits to take effect. (This seems safe,  but  is  in  fact
          rather unsafe if you have suidperl(1) installed.)

What the heck is that?  I don't seem to have it installed,
but this makes me nervous because I wouldn't necessarily
notice if it came in along with a bunch of other stuff
in an apt-get.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
   "Prohibition" was a sin tax error.

Harald Sundt wrote:
> [Eug-lug]  Linux- Mac OS X file exchange: This sounds right,
> 
> The Âac OS X is innocent.....
> 
>> Unless you reformatted the flash drive, very likely the filesystem was 
>> fat or vfat and the files did not contain any ownership or permissions 
>> because the filesystem does not support it.
>>
>> When a fat/vfat filesystem is mounted on Linux it normally defaults 
>> the ownership to root unless different uid/gid is specified in the 
>> mount command...