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ralphje / imagemounter

Command line utility and Python package to ease the (un)mounting of forensic disk images
MIT License
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Possibility to mount disks and volumes as non-root #3

Closed gtback closed 8 years ago

gtback commented 9 years ago

I'm trying to determine if there's a good way to use imagemounter as a non-root user. I think it might be possible by adding a mountpoint in /etc/fstab that allows non-root users to mount to it, and then allow passing the path to that mountpoint through the ImageParser constructor, through to the Disk constructor and mount method. Something similar might be necessary to mount all the Volumes on a Disk.

Does this seem reasonable? I'm happy to implement it, but wanted to make sure it was in line with the direction of the project and I wasn't missing some more obvious way to do it.

ralphje commented 9 years ago

I believe a Disk should be mountable without any root permissions (almost all disk mount methods use FUSE). However, it would be awesome if we could figure out a way to mount volumes without root privileges. Perhaps adding a path to /etc/fstab would work. I'd be happy to accept a PR if you could manage to get this working!

gtback commented 8 years ago

I've looked at this a bit and I don't think it's feasible (at least without adding a lot of complexity) The fstab file would need to know a lot about the image being mounted (including the file system) which makes a generic solution like the one I was trying for a lot harder.