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need sudo priviledges in c program

Dear all,

I need to do mount/umount operations in my c program. But my program can only be run under normal user. However, the user who run my program have sudo priviledges to do mount/umount operations. How can i apply the sudo privileges in the mount(2) system call? Please help.

hi,

which command you are going to use to call mount command in your program.

Try this

system("sudo <command>")

sudo prividleges apply recursive.. eg if user run script as sudo ./script.sh inside script it will have sudo priviledge.

Have your system administrator update the /etc/sudoers file to allow the user (or users) to use sudo when running the C program.

Thanks.

As appilu said, i use system() call instead:
system("/usr/bin/sudo /bin/mount -o loop,nodev,noexec,rw loop.img /mnt/disk");

I meant to use mount(2) system call directly:
mount("loop.img", "/mnt/disk", "loop", MS_NODEV | MS_NOEXEC, NULL);
but it seems i was wrong.

hi,
i think "system" is the best way to execute a shell command.

What about allowing the user to use one of the loop devices? Hence he can mount any image he likes on a granted loop device without being root or sudo:

1. Allow the user to write to one of the loop devices:

Code:

# chmod g+w /dev/loop7

# ls -lh /dev/loop7

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Feb 15  2010 /dev/loop7

2. Add the user to the group disk:

Code:

# usermod -A disk reuti

3. Add a line to /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/loop7 /home/reuti/foobar auto defaults,loop,user 0 0

Now we use a fresh login to mount an image (mounter.e2fs) as an ordinary user:

Code:

$ id

uid=1000(reuti) gid=100(users) groups=6(disk),10(wheel),16(dialout),33(video),100(users)

$ /sbin/losetup /dev/loop7 mounter.e2fs

$ mount /dev/loop7

$ ls foobar

lost+found  foo  bar

$ umount /dev/loop7

$ /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7