FC6 fuse problem

Andy Campbell fedora at starsend.force9.co.uk
Tue Oct 31 06:19:08 UTC 2006


Mail List wrote:
>    I have installed fuse and fuse-encfs. I am unable to run this as non-root 
> user - i.e. a permission problem.
>
>  I notice on boot that there is an error message (which may not be related?)
>
> Oct 30 22:21:27 foo udevd[411]: add_to_rules: invalid KERNEL operation
> Oct 30 22:21:27 foo udevd[411]: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.
> d/60-fuse.rules:1'
>
> The udev file contains 
> KERNEL="fuse", NAME="%k", MODE="0660",OWNER="root",GROUP="fuse"
>
> This is the same as fc5.
>
> lsmod shows fuse module in indeed loaded.
>
> However any attempt to do anything (sshfs or encfs) yields
>
>  fusermount: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
>
> unless the fuse mount is run as root.
>
> fusermount is setuid - and the user is a member of group fuse (neeeded as 
> fusermount is setuid and runnable only by group fuse).
>
> Suggestions?
>
>   
I had this.  From googling around I found a reference that the udev 
syntax had changed and
you need "==" for equality tests.   So the line should now be ....

KERNEL=="fuse", NAME="%k", MODE="0660",OWNER="root",GROUP="fuse"
      ^^

Worked for me anyway.

Andy





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