How to mount psf shared home folder as a non root user?

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I am using Parallels 11 and I really need to be able to use the shared home folder (or another shared folder) using non-root accounts in my Linux VM (Ubuntu 16.04).
This is clearly not a good security practice and also prevents me from discovering bugs that would be visible only when running as a normal user.
How can I address this problem?
Update: I tried to add a fstab line similar to the example from http://download.parallels.com/doc/pcs/html/Parallels_Cloud_Server_Users_Guide/35698.htm but when I tried to "mount -a" I got:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on none,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

 

[Sorin Sbarnea]

It seems that I was able to do this using

mount -t prl_fs -o uid=1001,gid=1001 Home /home/sorins

 

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I cross posted this at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...me-directory-as-a-normal-user-instead-of-root but I still have one unsolved issue:
How can I mount this using fstab?! I am unable to find any examples of using prl_fs inside fstab and giving the source share name ("Home" in my case)

 

[Sorin Sbarnea]

Should I also add that the documentation feedback form is broken on Chrome? Asks to pick the product and just reloads....
http://www.parallels.com/support/usersdoc/?problemSubject=Feedback+on+Help+Page+35698
So do we have any chances of getting a fstab mounting line that works?

 

[Mikhail Zholobov]

Hi,
Have you tried adding this line to `/etc/fstab` ?

Home /home/sorins prl_fs sync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,share 0 0

It should works with "mount -a"

 

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I was able to solve the problem using this approach:
cat `/etc/mtab` and copy the line from there to `/etc/fstab` and adding `uid=xxx,gid=xxx`. Doing a `mount -a` and I am done.

 

[Mikhail Zholobov]

Great! Yeah, that should work too.
I guess there is a line similar to the one I've posted above