I have tweaked the permissions on /media/username
from root:root
to username:root
[1]. I understand that a user-centric location allows user-centric permissions [2].
But why were the permissions for this folder root:root
in the first place?
[1] So that I can mount encrypted folders there with Gnome EncFS Manager. For example, I can now mount an encrypted folder as /media/username/personal-documents
.
[2] From Why has Ubuntu moved the default mount points? :
The root cause for this change of default behaviour in udisks2 seems clear : the security. It is safer to restrict access to a file system to one particular user instead of giving access to it to all the users of the system.