Package: pmount
Version: 0.9.11-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi, I have been using pmount to mount a usbkey formatted as ext3. I
recently bought a mp3 player with 1GB and I thought desirable to use
it instead of my 64MB key. However the player uses VFAT, so I couldn't use
UNIX file permissions (which is a PITA). I came up with having a
fs in a file inside the VFAT fs. But then you can't use pmount and you
have to be root to mount it (correct me if I am wrong). I think it
would be desirable to be able to mount loop devices as a regular
user. For that, several things have to be fixed:
1. /dev/loop* need to have a group different that 'disk'. 'plugdev', for
example.
2. /dev/loop* need to be included in /etc/pmount.allow, or change
linux so /sys/block/loop*/removable is 1 instead of 0 (I think this
is the best solution).
3. pmount would have to be changed so if the parameter is a file
instead of a device, do something similar to:
/sbin/losetup /dev/loop0 fs.img
And then use /dev/loop0 as a normal device and mount it in
/dev/fs.img
Probably what I am proposing is crazy (since I haven't thought about
security, etc...), but I can't see why this is not possible with the
current system.
I am motivated to do the changes myself (I don't think it's difficult,
all of them seem one-liners), if nobody sees any problem.
Thanks
Pablo
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-xen-686
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Versions of packages pmount depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-6 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libsysfs2 2.0.0-7 interface library to sysfs
pmount recommends no packages.
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