[plug] How do I execute mount as user?

Andrew Furey andrew.furey at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 20:51:16 WST 2008


>  I want to run mount without being root.  Fedora allows it, but Gentoo
>  does not.
>
>  How do I convince mount that I don't need to be root to use it?
>  I've tried  "chmod +s /bin/mount" with no success.

Try the "user" option in the fstab line for that mount.

Andrew

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