"Permissions Denied" error as root: SOLVED

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Aug 26 22:04:04 UTC 2008


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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".

That makes perfect sense. Ownership and access are not the same
thing.

Mike
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