On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:35:57 -0500 Celejar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 20:39:35 -0800 > David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > > As you have not stated how you mounted the drive, I will assume > > that you plugged it in, an icon appeared on the desktop, you > > interacted with the icon, and the drive was mounted at /media/usb0. > > If so, AIUI the various Debian desktops with automounting use > > FUSE. The user account running > > They do? Do you have documentation of this? I can't find anything > about this in the documentation of, say, Xfce4's thunar-volman: > > https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/using-removable-media > > > the desktop and automounter will have whatever access controls that > > are supported by the filesystem and/or by FUSE. But all other user > > accounts, including the root account (!), are denied access to the > > filesystem. This is a security feature of FUSE. See > > mount.fuse(8). >
I haven't investigated it thoroughly, but when I have casually checked what is mounted, I see that any USB sticks plugged in are on fuse. Xfce on sid, no usbmount, automounting done by systemd, by the way. -- Joe
