Package: fuse-utils
Version: 2.8.1-1.2
Severity: normal
This is what I have, where ~/private1 is itself an fuse-mounted
directory:
polya:~/private1 $ encfs ~/.encprivate2 ~/private2
EncFS Password:
fusermount: failed to open current directory: Permission denied
fuse failed. Common problems:
- fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
- invalid options -- see usage message
The source of the problem appears to be in util/fusermount.c, lines
599-605, where a check is performed to determine whether the current
directory (".") is readable. It is not at all clear to me why this
should be necessary, as we are about to chdir to the mount point
anyway. And in this case, it prevented me from doing something
eminently sensible. (This check failed, I presume, because with an
euid of 0, the directory is not readable, as it is fusermounted.) It
would appear that all that is necessary to fix this bug is simply to
delete these lines. (There may be other corresponding checks
elsewhere in the code, too.)
Julian
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Versions of packages fuse-utils depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfuse2 2.8.1-1.2 Filesystem in USErspace library
ii makedev 2.3.1-89 creates device files in /dev
ii sed 4.2.1-7 The GNU sed stream editor
ii udev 154-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
fuse-utils recommends no packages.
fuse-utils suggests no packages.
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