Hi. On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am not sure, but when I want to mount a ntfs-filesystem using ntfs-3g, I > always need to input the password of root. > > According to the manual, if ntfs-3g is setuid-root, it shall allow normal > users to mount ntfs-files.
It does for me: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=1.raw bs=1024 count=0 seek=10240 $ /sbin/mkfs.ntfs -F 1.raw ... Creating NTFS volume structures. mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day. $ ntfs-3g 1.raw .fuse $ mount ... ...1.raw on .../.fuse type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime...) > So, I have rwsr-xr-x with owner root:root, which IMO should do the trick, but > still asking for the password. Your user does have read-write access to the underlying block device, its not it? > However, I remember dark, there was something with "hardcoded in ntfs-3g", > which does this no more let work. This was years ago and I only remember weak. That only applies if: a) ntfs-3g is suid root-owned binary. b) ntfs-3g uses 'external' libfuse.so (i.e. dynamic link to a library). But they build ntfs-3g with '--with-fuse=internal' flag, so last one should not apply. Reco
