In message <2702075D4DE2B043BF5EB82E9CFAD45B093BBB at mail1.mediatrix.com> you wrote: > > Here is the recipe we use to mount ramdisk images without being a root user. ... > Note that the option 'user' in fstab allows any user to mount/unmount this > specific entry.
Just _mounting_ ramdisk images is not the problem... > You can either create new ramdisk images, or mount already existing ones > (very useful!). ...but to create a useful ramdisk image you will usually also have to create the device nodes in the /dev directory. And this is something that really _requires_ root permissions (or it would otherwise open huge security issues). And from the system administrator's point of view allowing anybody to mount any images he likes is a serious security issue, too. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." - Norm Schryer ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
