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Sshfs-fuse requires fuse

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
 <gnu <at> clacke.user.lysator.liu.se>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>,
 21142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21142: Sshfs-fuse requires fuse
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:58:04 +0100

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <gnu <at> clacke.user.lysator.liu.se> skribis:

> On 29-Nov-2015 12:19 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> However, we explicitly patch it because in practice the ‘fusermount’
>> binary must be at least set-user-gid to fuse, per mount.fuse(8):
> [ . . . ]
>> On GuixSD, this is addressed by having ‘fusermount’ setuid-root in
>> /run/setuid-programs, so things just work.
>>
>> On foreign distros, there’s not much we can do: Users have to set add a
>> setuid ‘fusermount’ in their PATH.
>>
>> Closing this bug as “wontfix.”
>
> Ok, that's pretty clear then. Is this clear somewhere in the documentation?
> Otherwise I suppose we should fix that.

Regarding foreign distros, I suppose we could add a paragraph about FUSE
under “Application Setup”?  Would you like to submit a patch against
guix.texi?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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