Mount - as regular user?

From: Tobias Brox (tobias_at_stud.cs.uit.no)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:59:58 +0000 (UTC)

So I'm sitting as a regular user at a computer. We are allowed to mount
things, i.e. the floppy - /etc/fstab has this line:

/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,nodev,sync 0 0

Well, nice enough. Except for that the floppy is formatted ext2, not fat.
I have ownership to the device:

brw-rw---- 1 tobias floppy 2, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/fd0

But anyway ...

$ mount -t ext2 /mnt/floppy/
mount: only root can do that

$ mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 ~/floppy
mount: only root can do that

$ mount -o loop -t ext2 ~/floppy.img ~/floppy
mount: only root can do that

Why can't I do this? What problems are there to allow regular users doing
this? 

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