I am very new to the forum. I have been using kde since before 2000. My question is how to get control on file permissions and ownership in auto-mounted devices?

My mass storage devices mounts with all files having roor.root ownership and 777 permissions. I am looking to get all files as 644 and directories as 755 with ownership of the user who mounted the device. I know how to do that with fstab but I would like to do it from within KDE.

Any ideas?

in KDE 4.4 there is an automounter which may be able to help control these settings. Otherwise they are controlled by HAL / uDev and thus your distribution ( although if you knew which files to edit, it would be possible for you to also )

Thanks for the reply. I use Fedora 12 64 bit.

Where in kde4 settings do I find these things to edit? I was guessing it might be at device action window, but really did not know how to change the settings there?

The settings should be located at System Settings > Advanced > Removable Devices.

OK I got to removable devices and can not see any option changing permissions! Do you think this could a missing feature in kde? By the way, I have kde 4.4.0 installed.

Perhaps those settings were removed before release...
You could try adding the device to /etc/fstab with the needed options, which may make HAL obey those settings.