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.

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