[ale] USB Key FOB not unmountable by user

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Oct 19 10:46:24 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:31 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Also, uid 1000 is usually root. Thus, root must unmount it.

UID 0 is root. Most human users UID start above 500 or so but some
systems start at 1000. check /etc/passwd for the username for UID 1000.

What distro is this?
> 
> On 10/19/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Oct 19 08:31:44 lightning hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 1000"
> >
> > Looks to me like hald is doing your mounting.
> >
> > http://linux.die.net/man/1/gnome-mount
> 
> 
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