I want to mount a password-protected SMB share (served by a Windows machine). The share is protected by a user name and password, and I may not write the password in a file, I want to be prompted for the password at mount time.
The goal is to install and run programs in a displaced (relocated) distro (whose / must not coincide with the global /) inside a host Linux system. The programs are not adapted for using a different / .
For a user process, I want to mount a directory in other location but in user space without root privilieges. Something like mount –bind /origin /dest, but with a vfs wrapper. Like a usermode fine-tuned chroot.
Is it possible to install a .deb package completely under my home directory at debian?
Were I root, I could simply create a dummy user/group, set file permissions accordingly and execute the process as that user. However I am not, so is there any way to achieve this without being root?
To perform a scan for bluetooth LE devices hcitool apparently requires root privileges. For normal users the output is following: