How To Install pmount on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pmount.
Install pmount on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pmount
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pmount on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pmount
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pmount on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pmount
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.