pmount (version 0.9.6 and 0.9.11 tested) mounts udf filesystems (here a dvd ram) as root.root in opposite to eg fat which is mounted 'user'.users. The default umask 007 makes it unusable for the user. This is the case with hal 0.5.5 and 0.5.7. sebschub@satux /media $ pmount /dev/hdb sebschub@satux /media $ pmount /dev/sda sebschub@satux /media $ ls -l insgesamt 22 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 10. Jun 16:11 dvd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 10. Jun 16:11 dvdram drwxrwx--- 11 root root 468 10. Jun 20:29 hdb drwx------ 4 sebschub users 22016 1. Jan 1970 sda sebschub@satux /media $ cd hdb bash: cd: hdb: Keine Berechtigung sebschub@satux /media $ cd sda sebschub@satux /media/sda $ Workaround: mount with umask 000: sebschub@satux /media/sda $ cd .. sebschub@satux /media $ pumount /dev/hdb sebschub@satux /media $ pmount -u 000 /dev/hdb sebschub@satux /media $ ls -l insgesamt 22 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 10. Jun 16:11 dvd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 10. Jun 16:11 dvdram drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 468 10. Jun 20:29 hdb drwx------ 4 sebschub users 22016 1. Jan 1970 sda sebschub@satux /media $ cd hdb sebschub@satux /media/hdb $ The problem is that written data is now stored as root.root and not usable with the next mount (except for root of course)!
Specifically regarding the umask, the UDF default is hard-coded in fs.c as reported here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3253765.html#3253765 According to what appears to be a Debian bug report -- http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348080;msg=22 -- the versions 0.9.12 and up use a default of 000 for the UDF umask. Unfortunately, you will note that none of these happen to be in Portage yet. I do not know why UDF mounts are owned by root when pmount gives ownership for all other filesystems to the calling user. It looks like the author of pmount, Martin Pitt, does understand English fluently, so perhaps someone could ask him. . . .
I have just tried pmount 0.9.13 by renaming the 0.9.11 ebuild and hoping everything goes fine. Well, it did. My DVD RAM are still root.root but the permission are 777. The problem of wrong permissions after re-mount described above is solved as well.
I put pmount 0.9.13 in portage a bit earlier, not sure when exactly, but once it shows up on packages.gentoo.org it should be available to all, Thanks for letting me know it works for you (renaming was all that was needed) - Closing since you report it works :)
