mounting loop back filesystems as non-root?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>I've got some CD ISO images that I'd like to mount occasionally.  The 
>problem i'm having is that only root can do it.  After googling there 
>were some folks who worked around this with sudo, but i'd really prefer 
>not to use sudo if it can be avoided.  Does anyone know of any means of 
>doing this as a non-root user?  thanks.

I haven't tried it, but you might use a standard file name and mount point
for the ISOs you want to mount, and put an entry in /etc/fstab to allow
this.

Bill
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