cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sun, 2005-Jan-02 12:14:02 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>   First cut support for extracting from ISO9660 disk images.
>>   This seems to be able to extract a TOC and extract files from
>>   the couple of ISO images I've tested it with.
...
>Very cool -- finally we can extract files from install CD's without root
>privilege :-).  This will be very useful.

I agree that Tim's efforts will be useful but it's already possible for
non-root users to mount CD's as long as:
- vfs.usermount = 1
- They can read the appropriate /dev/*cd*
- They have /sbin in their $PATH
- They own the directory they are trying to mount over.

-- 
Peter Jeremy