[plug] How do I execute mount as user?

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Mon Apr 7 21:10:40 WST 2008


Jim Householder wrote:
> 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.

pmount ?

Brad
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