Mount directory as a non-root user from /etc/fstab about bindfs HOT 3 CLOSED

I don't think I was aware that a lot of the options are inherited from fuse and the normal mount command, so I had only checked the bindfs man page.

It's far from obvious. I've added a mention of the fuse man page to the bindfs man page (for the next release) 👍

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Sorry for the slow response.

If you are on FUSE 3, then the setuid=... option documented in man fuse looks promising. There's also uid and user_id but I'm not sure what those do.

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No problem, I appreciate you taking the time to reply. setuid does indeed do what I was looking for. I don't think I was aware that a lot of the options are inherited from fuse and the normal mount command, so I had only checked the bindfs man page.

In the end, my fstab entry looked something like this:

/somewhere /somewhere_else fuse.bindfs setuid=user 0 0

Now, anyone accessing /somewhere_else does so with the permissions of user. I'm making use of ACLs in /somewhere and (though not thoroughly tested yet) I think there are some issues I've got to work through there, possibly what's detailed in #91.

Thanks for your help!

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