[ug-bosug] how to mount a .iso using lofiadm without superuser/root permission?

[Manish Chakravarty]

To fix/further my question:

acc to the lofiadm(1) man page

QUOTE
 The abilities of lofiadm, and who can  use  them,  are  con-
 trolled  by  the  permissions  of  /dev/lofictl. Read-access
 allows query operations, such as listing  all  the  associa-
 tions.  Write-access  is  required  to do any state-changing
 operations,  like  adding  an   association.   As   shipped,
 /dev/lofictl  is owned by root, in group sys, and mode 0644,
 so all users can do  query  operations  but  only  root  can
 change  anything.  The  administrator  can give users write-
 access, allowing them to add  or  delete  associations,  but
 that is very likely a security hole and should probably only
 be given to a trusted group.
UNQUOTE

So, to modify my question: is there any way for a non-root user to mount an
iso image?

Both the iso and the mountpoint is in the concerned user's home directory.

On Feb 2, 2008 1:38 PM, Manish Chakravarty <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to mount a .iso image using lofiadm without having
> superuser rights on a Nevada box?
>
>
> Here's a trace:
>  -bash-3.2$  /usr/sbin/mount -F hsfs `/usr/sbin/lofiadm -a
> /export/home/manish/workdir/nexenta-core-platform_1.0RC3-b80_x86.iso`
> /export/home/manish/workdir/nexentamnt/
> lofiadm: you do not have permission to perform that operation.
> mount: Mount point cannot be determined
>
> This on a Nevada b81 box
>
> --
> Manish Chakravarty
> http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/
>



-- 
Manish Chakravarty
http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com/
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