"Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Aug 26 21:31:25 UTC 2008


Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> Having root access only gives one effective ownership, not effective
> permission. Being root gives one the same privileges the owner would
> have.
> 
It gets more interesting when you have fuse mounted file systems. I
have an encrypted file system as user mikkel, and root can not
access it, unless I change to user mikkel, even if it is "unlocked".

Mikkel
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