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pythonlinuxsharerootdrive
Quartz
Quartz

Reputation: 11

How Can I mount shared drive in Python with no root?

I am trying to mount a shared drive by using os.system() in python. The problem is, that the installed linux version has no sudo command. Installing a sudo-package has failed. When using the command su, I am getting an error that it must be used with suid. I can't chmod +s because I have no root.

Any ideas? Mods? Or Buffer Overflow is the only solution here? =)

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1131

Answers (2)

Frederick Roth
Frederick Roth

Reputation: 2830

You could try fuse: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

It depends on what exactly you want to mount whether there is a fuse-module which is capable of doing so.

And of course it has to be installed.

Upvotes: 0

Aleksandar Dimitrov
Aleksandar Dimitrov

Reputation: 9487

You can't mount without root privileges (except in some circumstances, see below.) If you have no privileges on that machine, you have to ask the administrator.

What an administrator can do is insert certain mount points into /etc/fstab and mark them user. An administrator could also install sudo for you and allow you to execute sudo mount.

Python has no way (and shouldn't have a way) to circumvent these basic security features.

Upvotes: 3

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