Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

From: Jan Minar (Jan.Minar_at_seznam.cz)
Date: 12/30/03

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    On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:09:37PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote:
    > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have
    > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I
    > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root
    > users to mount loop devices?

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zero bs=1M count=10
    # mke2fs /mnt/zero
    # cat >> /etc/fstab <<EOT
    /mnt/zero /mnt/zeromnt ext2 user,loop 0 0
    EOT

    but that's probably not what you meant? 

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