Re: [Libguestfs] How to use libguestfs access LVM as non-root user?
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:42PM +0800, Qiu Yu wrote:
Hi,
Following code snippet, running as non-root user, will throw up a
'Permission denied' RuntimeError.
Could someone kindly guide me the correct way to handle LVM disk as
non-root user?
import guestfs
g = guestfs.GuestFS()
g.add_drive_opts("/dev/vg0/disk1", format="raw")
Libguestfs doesn't do anything different from any other program. I'm
assuming that /dev/vg0/disk1 isn't accessible by non-root (by anyone)
on your host.
On most Linux distros you can add yourself to the 'disk' group
in order to get access to disk devices:
# usermod -G disk -a yourusername
You may need to log out and log in again after doing that.
Cause as http://libguestfs.org homepage claims, "libguestfs
doesn't need root permissions."
Right. This doesn't mean that libguestfs bypasses OS permissions. It
just means that root isn't required unnecessarily.
Rich.
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