Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

From: B. L. Jilek (bljilek_at_crowbyte.dnsalias.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Hi Rob!

    On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, 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?

    You could try using 'sudo'. 

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