Comment 37 for bug 10550

I see that his bug was originally posted in 2004. I has been almost 4 years and yet there is still not appropriate fix for this problem.

It all boils down to this: the Ubuntu/Linux developers need to recognize that file permissions on udf discs are not worth protecting. A disc that is unreadable by Joe's linux box does little more than annoy Joe, and give him one more reason to switch to Windows or MacOS. The data is hardly protected. As we have seen here, even simply mounting the disc as iso9660 can allow some level of access to that "protected" data.

The ideal solution to this problem is to, by default, mount this disc using udf and assuming that the owner of each file is the user that mounted the disc (which is probably the case, anyway). This is not a "random" change or disregard of the permissions; it is in fact "systematic." Those users who wish to protect the permissions, the obviously more knowledgeable ones who care about the integrity of the udf metadata, ought to be able to manually remount the disc using the current (more restrictive) udf file system.

Of course this is probably not as simple as editing a line in fstab. Unfortunately, I lack the ability to make this happen. Perhaps someone can tell me how much work I am proposing?