This explanation was written before I realised I could simplify things to the two scripts above. The use of this /etc/fstab entry can also be restricted through the oup ownership of the directory (or directories) containing the symlinks. For example, the option owner in the /etc/fstab entry will let users deal only with files or devices they own. Other options can be added for further protection. Think twice before you override these defaults. Actually, these options are added as default options when the options user or users are used, which is necessarily the case in what we do below. Various options are available to restrict the use of file systems that are mounted, such as noexec which prevents execution ofīinaries, or nosuid, and thus contribute to security. If a knowledgeable contributor could comment further on security issues, it With the file systems that can thus be mounted. using options to restrict what can be done Security expert and I would recommend that you open doors no more thanĪbsolutely required. More flexible may open doors for malicious software. VITAL WARNING: Mounting is restricted for good security reasons. The /etc/fstab entry never changes either. But the symlinks can be anywhere in user space, as long as they stay in the same place The directory /tmp/UFS/ is created to isolate the links and avoid clashes.
# Actually both could fail, with careless mounting organization :-) # One of the two umounts may fail because it is ambiguous Umount /tmp/UFS/drive || umount /tmp/UFS/mountpoint # Allows normal user to umount device $1 from mount point $2 # The last statement should be a bit more subtle Mount /tmp/UFS/drive || mount /tmp/UFS/mountpoint Ln -s `realpath -s $2` /tmp/UFS/mountpoint # Both have to be created (as superuser for the /etc/fstab entry) # /tmp/UFS/drive /tmp/UFS/mountpoint auto users,noauto 0 0 # Allows normal user to mount device $1 on mount point $2 Here are two very short (5 lines + comments) Bash scripts that will do the job: Butīe used with much flexibility to (u)mount many different files onĭifferent mount points, without any further editing of /etc/fstab. Of course, modifications to /etc/fstab require root privileges. Normal user without root privileges, provided the right entry has It is actually very easy to mount more or less whatever you want as a For ISO 9660 images, try both fuseiso and UMfuse's ISO 9660 support (available under Debian as the fuseiso9660 package). Your best bet is to find a FUSE filesystem that's capable of reading your disk image. It only lets you mount things through a FUSE driver, and restricts your abilities to provide files with arbitrary ownership or permissions that way (under most setups, all files on a FUSE mount belong to you). But if you aren't root, it only lets you mount things that are mentioned in fstab. The reason for this is that there are many ways to escalate privileges through mounting, such as mounting something over a system location, making files appear to belong to another user and exploiting a program that relies on file ownership, creating setuid files, or exploiting bugs in filesystem drivers. Only root can call the mount system call. You can use it to mount an ISO image file and browse its contents.You can't mount anything that the administrator hasn't somehow given you permission to mount. GNOME Disks or GNOME Disk Utility is a comprehensive utility for managing storage devices, local filesystems, partitions and disk image files. When your work is done, unmount it manually to avoid file corruption. Just click on the sidebar entry to explore its content. Once mounted, a new filesystem entry should appear in the sidebar of your file manager.
LINUX ISO FILE MOUNT ARCHIVE
Once these packages are installed, just right click on an ISO image file and click on the menu entry that allows you to explore the archive.ĭepending on the archive manager plugin you are using, the ISO image filesystem may be mounted or it may be opened in the archive manager GUI window.
LINUX ISO FILE MOUNT INSTALL
If for some reason your file manager doesn’t have a dedicated archive manager plugin, you can install such archive managers in your Linux distributions by searching for “archive manager”, “file roller”, “archivemount” and “engrampa” terms in the package manager. You can use these archive managers to mount or extract content from ISO image files. $ man mount Mount / Extract Using Archive Managersįile managers in almost all major Linux distributions come with an integrated plugin for extracting and managing compressed archives.