Can only write to mounted IMG file as root.
 

Hi,

I've run into a slight issue on Centos 7. I can mount an IMG file with sudo mount -o loop ..., but I cannot write anything to the mounted image unless I'm root. I've noticed that when I mount the image, the ownership of the mount point changes to root:root. I'm not an expert at *NIX, but not a newbie, either. Somewhere in the middle. But I'm sure I'm overlooking something here. I shouldn't have to sudo every time I want to write to a floppy image. I even tried adding rw to the mount command. No luck. Any and all help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
--Lance

Certainly.
It's heads, the box wins, tails you lose :-/

To use mount -o you need to be root. What root mounts, only root can write to. I have lines like this in /etc/fstab If sdb is there on bootup / mounts it and a luser can't write. But if (as luser) I run Any user can write to it. Trust me, it's time to follow a basic motto of sanity

If you put the image in fstab with the user option, then anyone can mount it and the files should belong to that user.

I know about fstab, but these are IMG files of floppies that I want to be able to mount/unmount on the fly. These have to be mounted on the loop device. It works fine, as long as I'm root. I know that only root can mount/unmount, but I find it strange that other users can't have write access to the mounted image. I've tried setting both the mount point and image files to 666, as well as adding my non-root user to the "disk" group, as /dev/loop0 ownership is root:disk. Still no luck. :(

so you need to do some work on these images.
ok.
fire up a terminal, enter this:
now do your work (don't have to prepend sudo to commands anymore).
finished, enter - all done.
where's the problem.

Yes, me too. You just have to live with the trade-off between ease of ingress and insecurity. Anyone with a usb drive could hack windows for decades. They're making it inconvenient now, but not difficult. It's not easy in linux.

I wrote scripts to do what I need.