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July 10, 2019 at 1:27 pm #24330
Xecure
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    Hello.

    Anonymous wrote:

    to use usb hard drive one needs to be root. How can one write to usb drive as user: demo including from web browser? Suspect a command could allow usage from any user.

    I think more information is needed. In my experience with both USB pendrives or USB HDDs, I never had to use root permissions to be able to read or write to them, only for internal Hardrives have I had to open as root, so I am not sure what problem you are experiencing. If you can give us more info, we may be able to help you find the way to solve your troubles.

    First, we need information about your system. Are you using antiX 17.4 or 19b1 ? Is it a live environment or an installed antiX? Is it 32 or 64 bits? To answer this and more, please paste this to the terminal and come back to reply with the output:
    inxi -Fdplurz
    Second: We need to know what devices are you trying to write to. Are they USB or internal hard drives? What format do they have? To answer this, do the same as before with these three commands:

    blkid
sudo fdisk -l
sudo parted -l

    Third, explain to us what are the steps you follow to access your device. Do you connect the device when you are in antiX or before starting up the system? Do you mount it manually or does it automount? Do you use ROX filer or SpaceFM? What are the steps you follow to open and write on the device? These steps are important so we know a bit more about what we can do to help you.

    Let us know all this next time you can reply.

    Welcome to antiX!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Fixing inxi command

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