My son was shuffling through a pile of OLD game CD's we had laying around, and asked can we play this (old Win98 game) on the Linux box? We've had Wine for awhile, so we popped in the CD and got it going. Yay! But when trying to play, there was a bad spot on the CD and the game crashed. I looked up how to use gddrescue, and now have an ISO with no errors. Yay! So now I use sudo to mount the ISO, and start the game in Wine. It works just fine. Yay!

The problem is that my son wants to play the game on his user account. I don't want to have to type a password every time he feels like playing the game. As far as I have been able to determine, mount is only available via the sudo command. Probably that's a very good security kind of thing. The actual CD mounts automatically at login for both of our user accounts, without any user interaction required. That is what I'd like to do with the ISO.

Is burning the ISO back onto a disc the only way to accomplish this? Is there an alternative (location/sharing/permission?) setup that would work? I believe the game in question requires the CD for gameplay, so I'm guessing that means one way or another an ISO (or disk) must be mounted. Is there a way to mount w/out sudo?

Thank you in advance for your help!
Running Mint Petra, wine 1.4.1

You only have to use 'sudo' because, essentially, you are overriding what the system sees as allowable according to /etc/fstab. Therefore, you can set it up in /etc/fstab such that when the ISO is attempted to be mounted, it is permitted to be mounted without special permissions.

An entry a little like this:

I don't know where the "best" place for the iso would be. I usually put shared data in /usr/local/share but then you have to remember to back that up, which a lot of people don't do since on "normal" home computers all the important data is in /home

Another option is to create a "shared" folder in /home and mark it as a usable place by everyone or by some special group you create...like a "family" group for instance:

Now he can access the iso file, mount it, and level up.

Have a look at fuseiso, it can be used in your distro and can mount any ISO file without the need for passwords.

Don't you have to add the "user" option to the entry in fstab? I had to do that with my Windows partition before I could mount it as non-root.

EDIT: You'll probably also want to change "auto" to "noauto" to stop it mounting every time you or someone else logs in.