[plug] How do I execute mount as user?

Jim Householder nofixed at westnet.com.au
Mon Apr 7 21:06:03 WST 2008


Andrew Furey wrote:
>>  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
> 
Thanks.  It works, but I was hoping to be able to mount an arbitrary
partition without an entry in fstab.




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