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

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 05 April 2010 7:35:30 am Greg Simkins 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.

If you're in the same group, shouldn't just changing group permissions to be 
more permissive work?  And changing the group on the directory in question?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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