[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#781582: base: Removable media accessible r/o for users - solution perhaps simple.

[J. R. Schmid]

Package: base
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

there are several bug reports in the BTS regarding removable media ending up being readonly for normal users and writable for root only. Various solutions are suggested (such as adding a policykit rule [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190]) but the cause of these problems might simply be superfluous (historical?) entries in /etc/fstab, so Torquil Macdonald Sørensen gets it right in [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190] where he suggests that /etc/fstab entries for the devices affected might have to be removed. I have tried a fresh installation of Debian Jessie with the RC2 installer and ended up seeing these exact /etc/fstab entries (for /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 in my case, probably as these are the partitions on the USB stick used as an installation medium). Removing them as suggested lead to USB thumbdrives being writable by normal users again. Please note that SD cards were never affected, which is another hint at the /etc/fstab entries being the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)