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
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.