Bug#788662: Logged-in user no longer granted permission to removable disks

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 14.06.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> The disk was mounted, but the device file itself was not made
> read/write, so dd'ing a Debian .iso to it required root.  Previously,
> that has worked for the logged-in user without requiring root.  (I don't
> know how long ago this stopped working.)

Is your user in group floppy?
Removable media was owned by root:floppy in older udev releases IIRC,
i.e udev in wheezy.
AFAIK, we never applied ACLs for removable media. Instead rely on
udisks2 to grant unprivileged users write access.

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