Mount iso image as user

xavatar · 05-22-2005, 02:50 PM

Hi everyone.

I want my users to able to mount/umount iso images in their own home. example:
$ mount -o loop image.iso ~/iso

But mount won' t let that happens: "mount: only root can do that"

I can't put it in /etc/fstab as the image.iso should be able to be any file...

Any idea ?

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corfe · 05-22-2005, 06:32 PM

I haven't tried this, but maybe mount allows mounting symbolic links (to the actual file)? If it does, you could put in fstab the name of the symbolic link, and allow your users to point it to other places, and mount it.

Worth a shot, anyways.

acker · 05-23-2005, 04:27 AM

Set the nosuid bit in fstab anyway, because the .isos may contain suid files and that is not what you'll want...