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Re: ntfs-3g - mounting as normal user?

From Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: ntfs-3g - mounting as normal user?
Date 2019-04-09 17:30 +0200
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	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

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ntfs-3g - mounting as normal user? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2019-04-09 16:20 +0200
  Re: ntfs-3g - mounting as normal user? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-09 17:30 +0200

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