Thanks again Matthias! I've had success at last (!) by putting the options in the mount line (not fstab) as follows):
sudo mount -o loop,noatime,noauto,user,exec,fmask=133,dmask=022,uid=1001,gid=50,encryption=aes256 /dev/fd0 /home/dsl/crypt1
I never thought I'd see the day!
BUT
1. I still can't get mount to work here as a non-root user.
I'd guess your mount-command misses the SUID-Bit.
ls -la /bin/mount -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 84888 Mar 23 12:58 /bin/mount
Unfortunately, no. ls -la /bin/mount shows exactly these same permissions including the SUID-bit. So at present I still can't mount a loop device without being root.
2. And fstab options do not appear to be read by mount:
I've changed the fstab line to: /dev/fd0 /home/dsl/crypt1 vfat noatime,loop,encryption=aes256,noauto,user,exec,fmask=133,dmask=022,uid=1001,gid=50 0 In theory mount should read in all the options from this line from /etc/fstab, yes?
As long as you NOT specify a full commandline!
You must let out the mount-point or the Device, otherwise (i guess) mount won't look into fstab.
With a full command-line in fstab a mount /dev/fd0 or mount /home/dsl/crypt1 is enough.
But sudo mount /dev/fd0 /home/dsl/crypt1 yields (you can hear the floppy drive working): "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" So I do: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /home/dsl/crypt1 yields the error message: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems
While not writing the options to fstab is hardly an issue for a livecd boot - I'd need to restore this line before each mount anyway (so why bother?) - I'm now curious as to WHY it doesn't work.
:-)
Any more ideas?
Many, but nothing which is relevant for this. :-)
I've installed gnu-utils in case damnsmalllinux's Busybox mount (base system) was the problem, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Gnu-utils apparently has mount version mount-2.11x.
A mixture of subtle differences in your distro paired with a little bit of missing experience. :-)
Without doubt a good deal of the latter!..:=)
I've been using Linux for 10 years this fall. So i guess i have a little advantage in using Linux all these years. :-)
Bis denn
-- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
