[wplug] Sharing Devices and Files between users - Ubuntu 8.10

[Greg Simkins]

Progress Report:

I was not able to find a plugdev group on the Dell Mini with ubuntu 8.10 LTS.  There were a couple dozen groups, none of which I recognized as providing the access I desire.  I created a group called plugdev, but couldn't find a way to assign the access to new devices to this new group.  I found discussion at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00201.html, but it is command line oriented.  I don't want to ask an 8 year old to do anything from the command line.  

I found that I could eject the SD drive, change to the maria user and reinsert the SD drive.  This way it belongs to maria instead of greg and I could then move the one file of interest into her own folder.  Both greg and maria belong to the admin group.  I would think that would be sufficient.  I hesitate to put us both in the root group.  I think that is a security risk and not the proper way to accomplish what I want to do.  

I will keep researching.  

Greg



On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Grant Olson wrote:

> On 4/4/2010 6:54 PM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>> Greg Simkins <gregsimkins at me.com> wrote:
>>> I have found that she is not able to access files and devices (2GB
>>> SD card or USB flash drive) or files in my admin user space.
>> 
>> I'm not very familiar with how Ubuntu sets things up, but I would
>> guess that there is some group her account isn't associated with
>> that permits access to devices.  You can see what groups your
>> account and her account are in with the commands
>>  id yourlogin
>>  id herlogin
>> and can add her to any missing groups with
>>  sudo usermod -a -G groupname herlogin
>> 
>> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
>> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
> 
> I think the group is 'plugdev'.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug