On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:54:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Many developers need to create images of the ramdisk. The existing > approach is to give everybody the root password. We have already been > bitten by the consequences, so this should change ASAP. you could put the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/loop0 /mnt/loop ext2 user,noauto 0 0 that way you can mount it without being root. if you make losetup suid, or use sudo to let people run it as non-root, then you can do this.
- Creating rw-mountable fs without root Pavel Roskin
