This is working fine in Feisty (reboot needed for permissions to take root), so I'm closing.
** Changed in: fuse (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- fusermount requires fuse module kernel to be loaded, isn't done automagically https://launchpad.net/bugs/1860 -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs