Failing that, maybe there's some userspace thing that would emulate a mount for all glibc-based programs via LD_PRELOAD?
The proper way would probably be to use sudo and give all authorised users access to running mount (that would allow you to give that ability only to the users you want). I don't think it would care though about the directory permittions in this case.
Indeed it won't handle permissions, though it's basically similar to automount in that it uses a root-level component (invoked via an explicit suid). I was really hoping for
>> a way to do this without any special a priori setup by the sysadmin?
And actually it would have been really nice to be able to load arbitrary filesystem code in user-mode, guarantees that the effect is only for the current user/process... But that's dreaming. Linux doesn't even have an equivalent of Windows' arbitrary SMB shares "out of the box"[1].
Eran
[1] At least not at the real filesystem level; Konqueror (or is it KDE?) provides that by itself as a "virtual filesystems", which is really sad since you can't access such "files" with other programs. Reminds me of symbolic links on OS/2, which existed only at the Workspace Shell level but didn't show up in the filesystem.
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