Re: encfs works?

[Jan Šmydke <jan.smydke%jh-inst.cas.cz@localhost>]

Thank you, Victor, for this tip. However it doesn't work either -
perhaps as

crw-------  1 root  wheel  178, 0 Dec 14 00:49 /dev/putter

i.e. users don't have access here. I suppose changing permission or
ownership of this device is not really wanted. It works for you now?

JS

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:33:03 +0100
Victor Dorneanu <victor%dornea.nu@localhost> wrote:

> Jan Šmydke wrote:
> > $ encfs ~/.crypt ~/crypt
> >
> > after verifying the password it said:
> >
> > EncFS Password: 
> > encfs: puffs_mount: cannot open /dev/puffs
> > encfs: puffs_mount: directory "/home/honza/crypt": Permission denied
> >
> > Both the dirs "/home/honza/.crypt" and "/home/honza/crypt"
> > have "drwx------" for me, so it should be all right...
> >   
> 
> I really appreciate your mail since I was also struggling with encfs a
> few months ago.
> 
> In order to mount as non-root user you should set
> vfs.generic.usermount to 1:
> $ sysctl -w vfs.generic.usermount=1
> 
> That should do the job.
>