Is adding a user to the fuse group necessary?

[mhamrah]

After installing fuse, a fuse group was not created. I'm wondering if adding a user to the fuse group ( sudo usermod -a -G fuse [username]) is really necessary? It doesn't appear to make a difference.

[redbo]

As long as it works, I wouldn't worry about it. Your user really just needs access to /dev/fuse. On my OS, that file is owned by root:fuse, so adding the fuse group gives you access. I assumed that was part of the fuse default installation, but it might be a debian addition.

I'll research this a bit better and update the docs.

[mhamrah]

Thanks. I'm running Fedora 12, and /dev/fuse was owned by root:root. I changed this, but am getting some odd issues I'll put in another ticket.