On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > 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). >
If you want full control over owner and group on a file by file basis you can run fakeroot while creating the image/tar or whatever. I don't know if fakeroot exist anywhere else than in debian but it should not be hard to port. -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson AB Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 Tellusborgsv?gen 94 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 126 25 Stockholm ken at switchboard.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
