Re: How to access loop-aes mounted vfat filesystem as non-root user- help required!

[Phil H <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Matthias for your help (and Jari for the
clarification). However I'm still having problems.

I make a device-backed aes256-encrypted loop, where
the device is a floppy, format the loop device with
vfat, then deallocate the loop.  Then I put the
following in /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 /home/dsl/crypt1 vfat
defaults,rw,noatime,encryption=aes256,noauto,user 0 0

(I've also tried using 'users' plus the guid etc
settings as for the fstab entries for my hard drives).

BUT when I try to mount as an ordinary user I get:

"mount: only root can do that"

sudo mount works, but the mount directory has
root-only access permissions.

This is why I has the wrong notions in my initial post
- I'd tried this before.

What is going wrong?

PS: I'm using a knoppix-based distro

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