Can't Write to External Drive From User Account

[Glen Strom]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:56:36 -0500
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:28:14PM -0500, Glen Strom wrote:
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2007-02-22 21:42 /mnt/usbdrive1
> > 
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2007-02-25 23:28 /mnt/usbdrive2
> 
> So only root has write access, and everyone else can read.  Nothing
> chmod and chown can't deal with.
> 
I tried the following combinations--none work.

rwx rwx rwx root root
rwx rwx rwx root disk
rwx rwx rwx root users
rwx rwx rwx <user account> users




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