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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

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Allowing user mounting iso files.

One of my users asked to the possibility of mounting iso files.
In order to accomplish that I created a directory called /mnt/isoimage and a directory called /home/iso, the latter with chmod 770, I created a group for people who can mount iso images and /home/iso is now of root:isomounters . Added her to isomounters group and added a line to fstab:

/home/iso/image.iso /mnt/isoimage auto   ro,user,noauto,noexec,loop   0      0

Finally I told her: use ln -s /your/image/full/path.iso /home/iso/image.iso && mount /mnt/isoimage

This simple solution works, but I dislike users may use /home/iso as storage place instead of only create the symbolic link.
Is it avoidable?

Thanks

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: Allowing user mounting iso files.

Don't you need -o loop and -t iso9660 mount options in your fstab?

About your problem: i don't know, it basically comes down to the question whether one can use different "source" files (dev nodes etc) for one fstab entry.  i'ld like to know this too

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ezzetabi

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Re: Allowing user mounting iso files.

Maybe it is more clear:

#<file system>      <dir>         <type> <options>                    <dump> <pass>
/home/iso/image.iso /mnt/isoimage auto   ro,user,noauto,noexec,loop   0      0

As you can see the option loop IS set, about the filesystem I usually set auto for removable devices, yet... Yes, iso9660 is more precise.

Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-02-21 22:35:04)

mouse256

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Registered: 2005-08-24

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Re: Allowing user mounting iso files.

I think that what you'll like to do is possible with fuseiso (it's in aur)

Dieter@be

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Re: Allowing user mounting iso files.

As you can see the option loop IS set, about the filesystem I usually set auto for removable devices, yet... Yes, iso9660 is more precise.

You're right, my mistake

FuseIso is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images (.iso, .nrg, .bin, .mdf and .img files). It currently support plain ISO9660 Level 1 and 2, Rock Ridge, Joliet, and zisofs.

neat !

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