I've installed fuse with "module-assistant auto-install fuse".
Then, after loading the fuse module, I've tried sshfs, but I get
the following error:
fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
Here /dev/fuse has the following permissions:
crw-rw---- 1 root fuse 10, 229 2008-02-14 13:25:53 /dev/fuse
I wonder whether this is correct or if there is a bug. Indeed, the
sshfs FAQ suggests that the permissions should be 666.
---- quote from /usr/share/doc/sshfs/FAQ.txt.gz --------------------
Create the device node
If you don't use udev, you may get this error message:
fusermount: failed to open /dev/fuse: No such device or address
Before loading the fuse kernel module, create the device node
manually:
mknod -m 666 /dev/fuse c 10 229
--------------------------------------------------------------------
See the 666 above. Neither the README file nor the FAQ say that the
user should be added to group fuse.
/usr/share/doc/fuse-modules-2.6.24-1-amd64/README.Debian mentions
the group membership problem, but just to be able to use fusermount,
which is quite different.
So, what's the problem?
* Incomplete sshfs documentation which should say that the user
should be added to group fuse also to be able to use sshfs?
(But isn't that a security problem because it gives the user
permissions for whole fuse, not just sshfs?)
* Bad /dev/fuse permissions (if there is no security concern with
fuse)?
* Bad /usr/bin/sshfs permissions? (i.e. should it be sgid fuse or
something like that, so that *any* user can use sshfs while not
necessarily having access to whole fuse?)
* Anything else?