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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Tara, thanks for the comment. I don't agree with your summary, though. A chmod of the mount point *is not* persistent, and 777 has potential side-effects (making everything executable, for example, changing file modes that can trigger changes recorded by Git, and so on).
Learning and using ACLs is a sane and precise way to make a permissions-respectful filesystem available to the users you want to grant access to data. I recommend getting comfortable with it so you don't have to just chmod 777 everything every single time you attach a drive.
"Almost fun" is really close to fun. Seems like an alright day of work.