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

[Keith Wolters]

Perhaps you need to tweak the device permissions (make it group read/write
allowed instead of finding the correct group for the user.

Look at the "*Grant use of a device to system users" section on this page*
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*http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialManagingGroups.html*

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Greg Simkins <gregsimkins at me.com> wrote:

> 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'.
> >
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