From 5c86c64c7979662b0d74b156e85785a71c02b780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:49:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fuse: Make it clearer that -o allow_other must be enabled in /etc/fuse.conf. It wasn't very clear in the manual before. --- fuse/guestmount.pod | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.pod b/fuse/guestmount.pod index 7f3e84308..a068468df 100644 --- a/fuse/guestmount.pod +++ b/fuse/guestmount.pod @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ option. How this works is better explained in the L manual page, or by looking at the examples below. FUSE lets you mount filesystems as non-root. The mountpoint must be -owned by you, and the filesystem will not be visible to any other -users unless you make certain global configuration changes to -F. To unmount the filesystem, use the -L command. +owned by you. The filesystem will not be visible to any other users +unless you make configuration changes, see L below. + +To unmount the filesystem, use the L command. =head1 EXAMPLES @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ C option when mounting: sudo guestmount [...] -o allow_other /mnt +B to enable this option in F. + =head2 Enabling FUSE On some distros, you may need to add yourself to a special group @@ -310,7 +312,8 @@ Some potentially useful FUSE options: =item B<-o> B -Allow other users to see the filesystem. +Allow other users to see the filesystem. This option has no effect +unless you enable it globally in F. =item B<-o> B