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Re: user can't mount loop device...



On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bart Schuller wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:48:01PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > The stopper is that neither losetup, nor mke2fs are executable by User.
> 
> Is that something that you've done? My box has them
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        20988 Dec  4 22:38 /sbin/mke2fs
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9076 Nov 22 20:14 /sbin/losetup

I haven't done anything. Mine looks just like yours.
> 
> mke2fs just says
> 
> mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /tmp/bla is not a block special device.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> 
> and it works.

On my box:

dwarf@dwarf:~$ mkdir ./image
dwarf@dwarf:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=./pkg.img bs=1024 count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
dwarf@dwarf:~$ losetup /dev/loop6 ./pkg.img
bash: losetup: command not found
dwarf@dwarf:~$ su
Password:
dwarf:/home/dwarf# losetup /dev/loop6 ./pkg.img
dwarf:/home/dwarf# exit
exit
dwarf@dwarf:~$ mke2fs ./pkg.img
bash: mke2fs: command not found
dwarf@dwarf:~$ su
Password:
dwarf:/home/dwarf# mke2fs ./pkg.img
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
./pkg.img is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n)

And works.

Looks like you were working as root...

For the losetup command, I don't own /dev/loop6, but for the mke2fs
command, I _do_ own ./pkg.img, so ownership isn't enough. (at least for
mke2fs it isn't)

Thanks,

Dwarf
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