Package: fuse
Version: 2.9.2-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

The fuse package is restricting the usage of /dev/fuse and
/bin/fusermount to the members of the "fuse" group.

This is preventing packages like gvfs-fuse to work out of the box (see
#725706).

Upstream and all other distributions (RH, gentoo,...) are allowing all
the users to mount fuse fs (/dev/fuse with mode 666 and
(/usr)/bin/fusermount with mode 1755).

Is there any particular reasons that debian is restricting fuse usage
that much?

To be able make gvfs-fuse works out of the box, we could either change
the permissions back the the upstream one or we could tag the device
with "uaccess" to allow the logged it users to be able to read/write to
it. The user need to have access to the device as fusermount is quickly
dropping the root privileges when called.

Any thoughs about this?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fuse depends on:
ii  adduser   3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6     2.17-97
ii  libfuse2  2.9.2-4
ii  mount     2.20.1-5.5
ii  sed       4.2.2-3
ii  udev      204-5

fuse recommends no packages.

fuse suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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