How do you let non-root users mount arbitrary filesystems, such as NFS and SMB mounts anywhere on the network?
Linux allows non-root users to load only partitions specified as 'user' in /etc/fstab, or pre-specified in a relevant automount entry. Is there a way to let users mount arbitrary filesystems whenever the the obvious conditions (filesystem type kernel support, write access to mount directory, access to underlying resource such as block device or network)?
One way would be to cook up a sufficiency fancy automount script, though it may be non-trivial to make it sufficiently flexible and secure (esp. in the presence of SMB passwords and such).
Other ideas? In particular, is there a way to do this without any special a priori setup by the sysadmin?
Failing that, maybe there's some userspace thing that would emulate a mount for all glibc-based programs via LD_PRELOAD?
Eran
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