Non Root Filesystem Mount?


Subject: Non Root Filesystem Mount?
From: Darron Froese (darron@fudgehead.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 10:39:44 MDT


I've set up an encrypted loopback filesystem to store sensitive files on. It
works just fine if I'm root:

[root@ans darron]# /sbin/losetup -e serpent /dev/loop0
/home/darron/.cryptodir
Passphrase :
[root@ans darron]# /bin/mount info/
[root@ans darron]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 242M 117M 113M 51% /
/dev/sda8 1.3G 999M 233M 81% /home
/dev/sda5 145M 7.0k 138M 0% /tmp
/dev/sda7 1.6G 1.1G 440M 72% /usr
/dev/sda4 218M 49M 158M 24% /var
/dev/sda6 290M 121M 155M 44% /web
/dev/loop0 19M 13k 18M 0% /home/darron/info

It doesn't want to mount if I'm not root:

[darron@ans darron]$ /sbin/losetup -e serpent /dev/loop0 .cryptodir
Passphrase :
[darron@ans darron]$ mount info/
mount: must be superuser to use mount

I've modified my fstab with this info:

/dev/loop0 /home/darron/info ext2 users,noauto,rw,loop 0 0

Shouldn't that allow a non root user to mount it?

Any pointers would be nice. I'm running ydl-1.1, kernel 2.2.15 with the
International Crypto Patch, RAID 0.90 patch, Solar Designer's security
patches and some Apple Network Server specific patches (video, lcd, etc.)

-- 
Darron
darron@fudgehead.com



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