On 2015-11-18 19:17, U.Mutlu wrote: > Currently no responsible admin can grant permission to the mount pgm > to his users, because of the dangers inherent with bind-mounting etc. > > I suggest there should be an additional mount program destined for > unpriviledged users (to be used via sudo). > > It should be a stripped down version of the mount pgm, with only some > basic options for mounting, but without the dangerous options like > bind-mount. > > The new program should of course have a different name, for example > "usermount". > > I think this is the most clean solution to this problem. > > Users are intessted in mounting their own filesystems into > their own mountpoints, ie. they don't neccesserily need fstab or mtab etc.: > $ mkdir mymnt1 mymnt2 > $ sudo usermount myfs.img ./mymnt1 > $ sudo usermount my.iso ./mymnt2 fwiw, udisks2 already lets you mount removable drives and loop devices under (/run)/media: $ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb4 $ udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/foo.img -- Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
