| Stephen Gran on 16 Nov 2006 22:56:35 -0000 |
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:24:07PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said: > Mount in general denies its services to non-privileged users unless > explicit authorization is made in /etc/fstab. > > I'd like to be able to mount filesystem images from an already mounted > filesystem without having to authorize myself specially. I don't > think this is possible, but I'm curious (1) if I'm wrong and it is > possible, and (2) what the security concerns of this would be as long > as mount restricted me to mounting files I own on mount-points I own > and didn't permit files in the newly mounted fs to have permissions or > ownership that I couldn't otherwise give them. pmount does this sort of thing (it's designed for removable devices, not filesystem images, but i tmight be extendable) but it has to be suid to make this work. I imagine any such thing would have to be, so it's really either suid or sudo, and I'd really rather sudo, personally. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | I didn't like the play, but I saw it | | steve@lobefin.net | under adverse conditions. The curtain | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | was up. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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