Frank Thommen - 2021-05-18

Hi,
when creating or mounting NTFS formatted containers on Linux I need to provide my password. I assume that veracrypt does a sudo in the background. Why is that required? I never require special permissions when attaching NTFS formatted external disks and I can also format them w/o elevated permissions. Requiring root permissions prohibits us to distribute such containers to users which don't have the possibility of elevated permissions on their systems (which is usually the case in centrally managed environments).

Also it hinders the automated creation of such containers by regular users.

Any idea why the elevated permissions are required
Frank