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Re: mounting loopback as non-root user



Hi Rob!

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rob Benton wrote:

> I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have
> to be root to mount with the -o loop option.  At least on my machine I
> do.  Mount has the suid bit set.  Is there some way I can allow non-root
> users to mount loop devices?

You could try using 'sudo'.

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