Okay, I think I figured this out. By using e2label I labeled the usb device, changed the permissions and it appears that each time the stick is plugged in / mounted that these permissions are retained. However, this certainly is still an issue for those w/out a label, using the default uuid... It's just not an issue for me no longer :)
@ Timo Juhani Lindfors" <[email protected] 1. permissions were: root rw, root rw 2. The auto-mounting I assume is done by nautilus/gnome 3. not sure what a layout is but the drive has the ext3 filesystem 4. gdm -- metacity / gnome-2.30.2 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

