Creating RAM disks as a non root user.

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:52, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
> In message <2702075D4DE2B043BF5EB82E9CFAD45B093BBB at mail1.mediatrix.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Here is the recipe we use to mount ramdisk images without being a root user.
> ...
> > Note that the option 'user' in fstab allows any user to mount/unmount this specific entry.
>
> Just _mounting_ ramdisk images is not the problem...
>
> > You can either create new ramdisk images, or mount already existing ones (very useful!).
>
> ...but to create a useful ramdisk image you will usually also have to
> create the device nodes in the /dev directory. And this is  something
> that  really  _requires_ root permissions (or it would otherwise open
> huge security issues).
>

If you want full control over owner and group on a file by file basis
you can run fakeroot while creating the image/tar or whatever.

I don't know if fakeroot exist anywhere else than in debian but it
should not be hard to port.

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Kenneth Johansson
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