How To Install pmount on CentOS 8

pmount is Enable normal user mount

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount on CentOS 8.

What is `pmount`

pmount (“policy mount”) is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Be warned that pmount is installed setuid root.

We can use yum or dnf to install pmount on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pmount.

Install pmount on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pmount using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pmount

Install pmount on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pmount using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pmount

How To Uninstall pmount on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the pmount package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pmount

pmount Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/pmount.allow
/usr/bin/pmount
/usr/bin/pumount
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/1e1a7426c348a690d12972910a9a772d91111a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/e7a42215ace9a930cf338922b1ecae62029da6
/usr/share/doc/pmount
/usr/share/doc/pmount/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pmount/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pmount/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pmount/README.devel
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pumount.1.gz

References

pmount website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.