I think giving that user access permissions (file permissions) to the drive should be enough. Best done via a special group and adding the user to that group. Alternative is a suid binary or script. That is basically what is done for fstab, i.e. /bin/mount runns as su-root. Arno On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:24:04AM +0100, nimiezko@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > In fstab there is an option "user" which allows non-root users to mount > the designed FS. > It's useful for removable media. > > How can I allow a user to "cryptsetup" some predetermined drive ? > Any option in crypttab ? > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt