How do you make a USB stick chmod 777?

[jingo811]

My mother just got an 1 GB USB stick to play with. Unlike my 128 MB USB stick where anybody can store stuff on it. My mothers 1 GB stick requires ppl to become root in order to store things. That's not right :confused:

I tried to solve things by doing this but nautilus doesn't respond at all even when I do it in terminal. My hope was to tick all the permissions options so that anybody could store things on this stick.
Alt-F2
gksudo nautilus

Then I tried to just simply chmod it but nothing changes.
$ su -
$ chmod 777 /dev/sda1
$ chmod 777 /media/sda1

What the correct way of making an USB memory stick accessible to anybody, anywhere, anytime?

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121 971901 b W95 FAT32
debian:~#

[jingo811]

Hmmm it seems Ubuntu Feisty isn't affected by permission problems when accessing a USB stick. Only Debian Etch seems to require ppl to become root in order to access it.
Well problem solved recommend Ubuntu for your mothers not Debian :)