Bug 835707

Summary:	fuse module not loaded on boot
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Forgotten User sLJ7K2dvxj <forgotten_sLJ7K2dvxj>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_sLJ7K2dvxj
Version:	13.1 Milestone 4
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Stanislav Brabec 2013-08-20 16:26:37 UTC

fuse module was automatically loaded in openSUSE 12.3, so non-root users were capable to use fuse based software, e. g. encfs. Now manual calling of "modprobe fuse" as root is required.

It would be nice to return to the previous behavior.

Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2013-08-29 20:51:36 UTC

FUSE doesn't seem to be loaded by default on 12.3 either. My headless 12.3 systems don't have it loaded. I suspect it may be autoloaded by GNOME for gvfs, but I don't think it would be loaded automatically otherwise.

Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2013-09-03 16:26:48 UTC

Confirming that even on 12.3 fuse is not autoloaded. Trying to use encfs command as non-root fails before login to GNOME.

But maybe the user-level fuse autoload could be ported (from GVFS) to other applications, so one could use encfs and other fuse based utilities without root privileges.

Comment 3 Forgotten User sLJ7K2dvxj 2013-09-05 07:41:41 UTC

It *should* autoload for all cases.  The fuse device is set up by udev or whatever and autoloading the fuse module is done when the device is accessed.

Do you have /dev/fuse after boot?

Comment 4 Stanislav Brabec 2013-09-05 13:57:26 UTC

Yes, I have. But in 12.3 it was world writable, in Factory it is root-only.

I see this after login to GNOME:

openSUSE 12.3:
utx:~ # ls -al /dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 229 Sep  5 13:18 /dev/fuse
utx:~ # lsmod | grep fuse
fuse                   87139  3
utx:~ #

openSUSE Factory:
oct:~ # ls -al /dev/fuse
crw------- 1 root root 10, 229 Sep  5 15:26 /dev/fuse
oct:~ # lsmod | grep fuse
oct:~ #

Comment 5 Forgotten User sLJ7K2dvxj 2013-09-05 14:41:11 UTC

Okay, so this is a dup of 835813.

I have no idea about this one.  It certainly doesn't look like anything in the fuse package.  Who would know why permissions on a device changed in Factory?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 835813 ***