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Mounting anything requires root even if you use FUSE. There are ways to intercept writes without root and send them to another machine. Eg you could use LD_PRE

by NavinF 2y ago

Mounting anything requires root even if you use FUSE. There are ways to intercept writes without root and send them to another machine. Eg you could use LD_PRELOAD. But that's exactly the kind of pain in the ass that I was hoping a project named FFmpeg-over-IP would automate.

duped 2y ago
mount doesn't require root, but even without getting into mount namespaces, this is why fusermount3 exists
- NavinF 2y ago
  Interesting, the man page says "To allow mounting and unmounting by unprivileged users, fusermount3 needs to be installed set-uid root". Is this the default case on any distros?
  - duped 2y ago
    It's the case on all distros that distribute it, because otherwise it's useless.