How to make Android MTP in CentOS7 available for all users?

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I'm using Moto G4 play with Marshmallow; and CentOS 7. I'm able to mount the device and see the content as root, by using jmtpfs. First time I used sudo then I switched as root and then mounted, works fine on both occasions; but files are only visible for root user. personal user is not able to access the content

[shiva@jayan ~]$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for shiva: 
Last login: Wed Dec 6 23:51:54 IST 2017 on pts/0
[root@jayan ~]# jmtpfs /media/phone/
Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
[root@jayan ~]# ll /media/phone/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 0 Dec 3 4453203 Internal storage

But when I try to view it as my user, I get permission denied, as a dumb attempt I even tried to change user after mounting.

[shiva@jayan /]$ ll /media/phone 
ls: cannot access /media/phone: Permission denied
[shiva@jayan /]$ cd media/
[shiva@jayan media]$ ll
ls: cannot access phone: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? phone
[shiva@jayan media]$ sudo chown shiva:shiva phone 
[sudo] password for shiva: 
chown: changing ownership of Ã¢Â€Â˜phoneÃ¢Â€Â™: Function not implemented

Then I tried to mount from my user, it detected no mtp :(

[root@jayan ~]# fusermount -u /media/phone
[root@jayan ~]# exit
logout
[shiva@jayan ~]$ jmtpfs /media/phone/
No mtp devices found.

Now my question is how to resolve this?
How to make mtp devices available for my user (or)
How to access files after mounting it as root! I tried using sudo chmod -R 775, it ran forever :'( yet was not able to access those files

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

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asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

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First what group owns that mount when it's mounted? Then you need to realize that there is a udev rule that determine what happens to that mount, so overriding that might do the trick!
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:15

Please run this cat /etc/group | grep uucp, if that group exists add yourself to it! And see here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:22

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Your question told me that jmtpfs exists, and it turned out it works out just fine with my Android phone - thanks!
â€“Â telcoM
Dec 21 '17 at 13:32

@GeorgeUdosen nope there is no such group, thanks for the input; might help someone with such case :)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:54

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[shiva@jayan ~]$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for shiva: 
Last login: Wed Dec 6 23:51:54 IST 2017 on pts/0
[root@jayan ~]# jmtpfs /media/phone/
Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
[root@jayan ~]# ll /media/phone/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 0 Dec 3 4453203 Internal storage

But when I try to view it as my user, I get permission denied, as a dumb attempt I even tried to change user after mounting.

[shiva@jayan /]$ ll /media/phone 
ls: cannot access /media/phone: Permission denied
[shiva@jayan /]$ cd media/
[shiva@jayan media]$ ll
ls: cannot access phone: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? phone
[shiva@jayan media]$ sudo chown shiva:shiva phone 
[sudo] password for shiva: 
chown: changing ownership of Ã¢Â€Â˜phoneÃ¢Â€Â™: Function not implemented

Then I tried to mount from my user, it detected no mtp :(

[root@jayan ~]# fusermount -u /media/phone
[root@jayan ~]# exit
logout
[shiva@jayan ~]$ jmtpfs /media/phone/
No mtp devices found.

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

22.6k154894

asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

737

First what group owns that mount when it's mounted? Then you need to realize that there is a udev rule that determine what happens to that mount, so overriding that might do the trick!
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:15

Please run this cat /etc/group | grep uucp, if that group exists add yourself to it! And see here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:22

1

Your question told me that jmtpfs exists, and it turned out it works out just fine with my Android phone - thanks!
â€“Â telcoM
Dec 21 '17 at 13:32

@GeorgeUdosen nope there is no such group, thanks for the input; might help someone with such case :)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:54

add a commentÂ |Â

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[shiva@jayan ~]$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for shiva: 
Last login: Wed Dec 6 23:51:54 IST 2017 on pts/0
[root@jayan ~]# jmtpfs /media/phone/
Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
[root@jayan ~]# ll /media/phone/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 0 Dec 3 4453203 Internal storage

But when I try to view it as my user, I get permission denied, as a dumb attempt I even tried to change user after mounting.

[shiva@jayan /]$ ll /media/phone 
ls: cannot access /media/phone: Permission denied
[shiva@jayan /]$ cd media/
[shiva@jayan media]$ ll
ls: cannot access phone: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? phone
[shiva@jayan media]$ sudo chown shiva:shiva phone 
[sudo] password for shiva: 
chown: changing ownership of Ã¢Â€Â˜phoneÃ¢Â€Â™: Function not implemented

Then I tried to mount from my user, it detected no mtp :(

[root@jayan ~]# fusermount -u /media/phone
[root@jayan ~]# exit
logout
[shiva@jayan ~]$ jmtpfs /media/phone/
No mtp devices found.

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

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asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

737

[shiva@jayan ~]$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for shiva: 
Last login: Wed Dec 6 23:51:54 IST 2017 on pts/0
[root@jayan ~]# jmtpfs /media/phone/
Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
[root@jayan ~]# ll /media/phone/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 0 Dec 3 4453203 Internal storage

But when I try to view it as my user, I get permission denied, as a dumb attempt I even tried to change user after mounting.

[shiva@jayan /]$ ll /media/phone 
ls: cannot access /media/phone: Permission denied
[shiva@jayan /]$ cd media/
[shiva@jayan media]$ ll
ls: cannot access phone: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? phone
[shiva@jayan media]$ sudo chown shiva:shiva phone 
[sudo] password for shiva: 
chown: changing ownership of Ã¢Â€Â˜phoneÃ¢Â€Â™: Function not implemented

Then I tried to mount from my user, it detected no mtp :(

[root@jayan ~]# fusermount -u /media/phone
[root@jayan ~]# exit
logout
[shiva@jayan ~]$ jmtpfs /media/phone/
No mtp devices found.

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

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asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

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edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

22.6k154894

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

22.6k154894

edited Dec 21 '17 at 18:04

GAD3R

22.6k154894

asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

737

asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

737

asked Dec 6 '17 at 19:41

Shiva

737

First what group owns that mount when it's mounted? Then you need to realize that there is a udev rule that determine what happens to that mount, so overriding that might do the trick!
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:15

Please run this cat /etc/group | grep uucp, if that group exists add yourself to it! And see here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:22

1

Your question told me that jmtpfs exists, and it turned out it works out just fine with my Android phone - thanks!
â€“Â telcoM
Dec 21 '17 at 13:32

@GeorgeUdosen nope there is no such group, thanks for the input; might help someone with such case :)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:54

add a commentÂ |Â

First what group owns that mount when it's mounted? Then you need to realize that there is a udev rule that determine what happens to that mount, so overriding that might do the trick!
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:15

Please run this cat /etc/group | grep uucp, if that group exists add yourself to it! And see here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:22

1

Your question told me that jmtpfs exists, and it turned out it works out just fine with my Android phone - thanks!
â€“Â telcoM
Dec 21 '17 at 13:32

@GeorgeUdosen nope there is no such group, thanks for the input; might help someone with such case :)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:54

First what group owns that mount when it's mounted? Then you need to realize that there is a udev rule that determine what happens to that mount, so overriding that might do the trick!
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:15

Please run this cat /etc/group | grep uucp, if that group exists add yourself to it! And see here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
â€“Â George Udosen
Dec 19 '17 at 5:22

Your question told me that jmtpfs exists, and it turned out it works out just fine with my Android phone - thanks!
â€“Â telcoM
Dec 21 '17 at 13:32

@GeorgeUdosen nope there is no such group, thanks for the input; might help someone with such case :)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:54

add a commentÂ |Â

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Un-comment the user_allow_other on your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Mount your android device with allow_other option on your home directory without sudo :

$ mkdir phone
$ jmtpfs -o allow_other phone/

answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

GAD3R

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Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 11:56

1

Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:58

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Un-comment the user_allow_other on your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Mount your android device with allow_other option on your home directory without sudo :

$ mkdir phone
$ jmtpfs -o allow_other phone/

answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

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Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
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Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
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Un-comment the user_allow_other on your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Mount your android device with allow_other option on your home directory without sudo :

$ mkdir phone
$ jmtpfs -o allow_other phone/

answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

GAD3R

22.6k154894

Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 11:56

1

Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:58

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accepted

+50

up vote
2
down vote

accepted

+50

Un-comment the user_allow_other on your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Mount your android device with allow_other option on your home directory without sudo :

$ mkdir phone
$ jmtpfs -o allow_other phone/

answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

GAD3R

22.6k154894

Un-comment the user_allow_other on your /etc/fuse.conf file.

Mount your android device with allow_other option on your home directory without sudo :

$ mkdir phone
$ jmtpfs -o allow_other phone/

answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

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answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

GAD3R

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answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

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answered Dec 19 '17 at 11:46

GAD3R

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Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 11:56

1

Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:58

add a commentÂ |Â

Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 11:56

1

Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 17:58

Thanks for the answer, not in a position to check and certify the answer. But I felt compelled to thank, and so here it is :) give me 6 hours
â€“Â Shiva
Dec 21 '17 at 11:56

Thanks!! Works like magic. Didn't do any hard core file transfer testing - sort of one mkdir, delete tmp file and open a video. Hope that covered all normal file operations ;)
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Dec 21 '17 at 17:58

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