Bug 235708

Summary:	Hal mounts vfat filesystems with root ownership
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stewart Adam <s.adam>
Component:	gnome-mount	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	mclasen, steven-fcbugz
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Description Stewart Adam 2007-04-09 18:56:16 UTC

Description of problem:
Not sure if this is hal or gnome-mount at fault, however when using a non-root
user, automounted drives always have root as owner and group and as a result the
drive is unwritable.

I have an ext3 filesystem with a directory owned by my regular user, and that
works fine although any vfat filesystem turns up with root/root as owner/group
with 755 permissions on all files, so the drivers are unwritable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-mount-0.5-4.fc7
hal-0.5.9-1.fc7


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount a vfat volume
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
It's unwritable, root/root 755

Expected results:
The drives are writable (user/user 755)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Steven Op de beeck 2007-04-11 15:50:30 UTC

Hi,

My Fedora Core 7 Test3, upgraded to devel, has this problem too. I seem to
remember that this wasn't the case in the clean FC7Test3 install -- I could be
incorrect though. So I downgraden: kernel, udev (hadn't changed), gnome-mount,
hal(-libs) to the test3 version, but no change.

hal-0.5.9-0.git20070326.fc7
hal-devel-0.5.9-0.git20070326.fc7
kernel-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7
gnome-mount-0.5-3.fc7
udev-106-1.fc7

$mount
/dev/sdb1 on /media/CRUZER type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

This should contain: uid=userid(or username) I believe. In Ubuntu Feisty this
looks like:
dev/sdb1 on /media/CRUZER type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077)

.. enabling user 1000 to write to the device.

This is the case with external-usb-disks and sticks.

I have tried disabling selinex with no effect.

Comment 2 Steven Op de beeck 2007-04-12 16:09:00 UTC

I'm posting here from the FC Test3 i386 Live cd. And I can confirm that it works
here. My vfat USBstick mounts correctly as the currently logged in user: 'fedora'.

from mount:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/CRUZER type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=winnt,uid=500)

hal-0.5.9-0.git20070326.fc7
kernel-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7
gnome-mount-0.5-3.fc7
udev-106-1.fc7

Comment 3 David Zeuthen 2007-04-12 16:42:15 UTC

Btw, this is a duplicate of bug 234716

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234716 ***