AllowRoot doesn't work

[Jille]

I'm getting this error:
2016/06/27 00:52:21 mount helper error: fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument

According to https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/mailman/message/34133833/ allow_root is supposed to be changed into allow_other internally and handled by denying everyone but the user and root in the daemon.

[tv42]

Well, crap. Have I mentioned how much I hate the C FUSE library and it's documentation?

I think what will happen next is that I remove the AllowRoot option, and if you want that behavior you use AllowOther and test the Uid field in incoming requests. You can start programming that way right now ;)

I have no intention of letting the Go library bloat into the level of confusion the C library has; we're gonna stick to the kernel API much more closely.

[tv42]

The plot thickens. OSXFUSE does allow_root in kernelspace: https://github.com/osxfuse/kext/blob/defa977858140237f9da32205849a91199601b49/osxfuse/fuse_vfsops.c#L268-L272

It's really unclear how to write anything portable when nothing works the same way :(

[omani]

I think what will happen next is that I remove the AllowRoot option, and if you want that behavior you use AllowOther and test the Uid field in incoming requests. You can start programming that way right now ;)

^ this is how I do it btw.

I don't use AllowRoot, AllowOther should do the job for you.

[avmaksimov]

Yeee... AllowOther works fine but before you have to uncomment "user_allow_other” option in /etc/fuse.conf .

[ethicnology]

Hey fellows, I'm facing the same issue, i want to mount something for the mounting user + root (only) should have access.

I'm a bit lost regarding this history do i have to --allow-other in the rclone command or removing user_allow_orther and add AllowOther in the /etc/fuse.conf

… or something else?

[tv42]

If you want to tell the kernel to allow other users to use the mount, you need AllowOther.

If you want to limit which other users can do that, you need to implement that in the filesystem logic.