Strange mounting issue with ext3

[Roderich Schupp]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
>> What is needed here is a new mount option: "forget about the
>> uids on the drive, just pretend any file is owned by the mounting user".
>
> Which can be translated as "just unscrew any disk, put it into a cheap
> USB sleeve et voila, readable root files with no unix knowledge!"

BS. Of course, hal (or some other device manager)  would
grant this fictitious "-o uid=..." mount option for ext2/3 etc
only for removable media, same as it does today - mounting,
even a FAT-formatted USB stick, still needs root powers on Linux.
It's just hal that does it on behalf of jluser in certain situations.

Cheers, Roderich