Bug 209449

Summary:	Can't use encfs as user to mount a local encrypted directory
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brian G. Anderson <bikehead>
Component:	fuse-encfs	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Brian G. Anderson 2006-10-05 13:33:22 UTC

Description of problem:
Reading the man page for encfs seems to imply that one can mount an encrypted
filesystem as non-root if one has permissions on the source directory and the
destination.  However when I try and mount "encfs ~/.encfs ~/encfs" it fails with :

EncFS Password: 
fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied
fuse failed.  Common problems:
 - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
 - invalid options -- see usage message


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fuse-encfs.i386                          1.3.1-3.fc6


How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do encfs ~/.encfs ~/encfs as normal user
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:
mount fails with permission denied


Expected results:
user should be able to mount their own directories


Additional info:
I can do "encfs --public ~/.encfs ~/encfs" as root

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2006-10-16 17:44:18 UTC

Did you add your user into "fuse" group? If not,then you should do something like:

usermod -a -G fuse petro

(assuming your user is petro) from superuser account.