When I was studying the manual page for command **pmount** I read the following:

> pmount ("policy mount") is a wrapper around the standard mount program
 which permits normal users to mount removable devices.

And when I used `pmount /dev/sdc1` (without sudo) as a normal user, it created a folder named `/media/sdc1` folder, while the permissions for the system's `/media` folder are `drwxr-xr-x` and it is owned by `root`. This means that a normal user (currently, me) cannot create files and folders in `/media` folder. 

Doesn't this contradict the rules of permissions and ownership in Linux?

Another question is that while `mount` requires superuser permissions, and `pmount` uses `mount` internally, how is it possible to use `pmount` without `sudo`?