Phil H wrote:
I confirm that I can now mount a vfat-formatted loop device as a non-root user with the appropriate line in /etc/fstab and just doing mount ~/crypt1 in a shell - thanks! HOWEVER it seems that if I do not put the line in /etc/fstab and instead try to mount -o with all the same options from the commandline, then I can only do that as root. Is that correct?
The man-page says nothing about that. And i haven't tried it, but i guess because of security a non-root user can't add additional options. Otherwise you could make a mount read-write that was only intend read-only, make programs executable or whatever else you can change with the options. -- 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/
