FC6 fuse problem

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 08:45:12 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 06:19 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
> 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
> 

Can you file a BZ# so it'll get fixed in the next update?

- Gilboa




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