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URemery

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Registered: 2019-09-30

Posts: 14

Non root user write permission on auto-mounted usb drive

Hi,

I want to backup my data periodically on an external drive. So I created a systemd service (launched by a systemd timer) which uses rsync to do the job.
Unfortunately, rsync can't write on my usb drive because non-root users don't have write permission on auto-mounted drives.

It might be unsafe to just put a "sudo" in front of the rsync command so is there a way to configure Udisks2 so that a non-root user can write on an auto-mounte drive ?

This is my first post here, hopefully no mistakes were made haha. Thanks in advance,

Ugo

sabroad

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Registered: 2015-05-24

Posts: 242

Re: Non root user write permission on auto-mounted usb drive

If this is ext4, then the filesystem itself will have permissions control, in which case you need to use chown.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,701

Re: Non root user write permission on auto-mounted usb drive

Welcome to the Arch Linux Forums.

How are you "auto-mounting" the drive?

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