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gnome-system-tools package

NTFS partitions mounted as root - inaccessible to normal user

Bug #55405 reported by Gavin Hamill
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Bug Description

Version: 2.14.0-0ubuntu11

(Dapper)

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

System -> Administration -> Discs

Select a hard disk with an NTFS partition, move to Partitions tab, select the NTFS partition and then press 'Enable'.

Drive will then be mounted somewhere underneath /tmp, but with mode 0500 owned by root:root making it completely useless for access by normal users.

Worse still, the 'Browse' button in Discs Manager doesn't work, since it launches a Nautilus window as the logged-in user rather than root so further reducing the usefulness of the 'Enable' button.

This likely affects FAT partitions, too but I don't have any to test with, and they're a dying breed anyway.

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Gavin Hamill (gdh)
description: updated
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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report.

Could you have a look at how this bug relates to bugs #2198 and #40200 ?

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Gavin Hamill (gdh) wrote :

Yup it's a dupe of both those in one way or another. The 'OMG nautlius runs at root!?!' issue is fixed, and I notice the NTFS partition is automatically mounted in /tmp/ as soon as the Discs Manager starts running, but still only root can access this mount by default.

This behaviour is neither transparent nor logical :/ The end user gets only the feeling "It doesn't work." with no clickyclicky facility to change it.

Discussion threaded from these bugs regarding r/w mount for vfat partitions are valid here, too since the full r/w ntfs-3g driver based on FUSE is just around the corner...

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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Can we set this bug as a duplicate of bug 2198 and continue the discussion there ?

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) wrote :

Yes that's fine :)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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