OT?: non-root use of mount to loop mount filesystem images?

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:06 -0700, Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.) wrote:
> I hope this isn't too far off topic.  I figure some of you may have 
> attacked this issue before:
> 
> Does anyone know how (or if it is even possible) to allow a non-root 
> user to configure and mount a loop device to whatever mount point 
> they choose?
> 
> On my development machine I typically do not login as root for the 
> obvious reasons.  But to mount a filesystem image with the command 
> below I have to be root:
> 
> # mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 rootfs.image /some/mount/point
> 
> I'd rather not have to 'su' everytime I need to mount a device.

The only thing I can think of is sudo which allows you to run the mount
command with root privileges, without becoming root...

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