When I type mount &lt;device&gt; &lt;folder&gt; I get message "mount: only root can do that", how so? if mount has -rwsr-xr-x. permissions?
Why does Linux require that a user be root/using sudo/specifically authorized per mount in order to mount something? It seems like the decision as to whether to allow a user to mount something should be based on their access rights to the source volume/network share and to the mount point. A couple of uses for non-root mounting are mounting file-system images to a user owned direction and mounting a network share to a user owned directory. It seems like if the user has control over both sides of the mount equation everything should be cool.  Clarification of access restriction:  I feel I should be able to mount anything that the user otherwise would have access to to a mount-point that the user is the owner of.  For instance, on my computer /dev/sda1 is owned by user root and group disk with permissions brw-rw----. Therefore non-root users can't mess with /dev/sda1 and clearly mount shouldn't allow them to mount it. However if the user owns /home/my_user/my_imagefile.img and mount point /home/my_user/my_image/ why shouldn't they be able to mount that image file on that mount point with:  mount /home/my_user/my_imagefile.img /home/my_user/my_image/ -o loop   As kormac pointed out there is a suid problem. So some restrictions would have to be added to prevent suid from being a problem as well as potentially some other issues. Perhaps one way to do this would be to make the OS treat all files as belonging to the user that did the mounting. However for simple read/write/execute, I don't see why this would be a problem.  Use case:  I have an account in a lab where my home space is restricted to 8GB. This is tiny and very very annoying. I would like to mount an nfs volume from my personal server to essentially increase the amount of room that I have. However, because Linux does not allow such things I'm stuck with scp'ing files back and forth to stay under the 8GB limit.
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