On 12.10 this still appears to be an issue out of the box. The biggest problem it causes is that it makes working with one's own system very frustrating, since you lose the ability to use any GVFS mounted filesystems between sudo'd nautilus windows (you have to drag to local machine, then drag to wherever one is working).
There desperately needs to be a configuration option for this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 Title: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail Status in GVFS: New Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gvfs” package in ALT Linux: New Bug description: Problem ======= For security reasons ( possible DoS ), other users (esp. root) cannot access a fuse filesystem, and not even stat the mountpoint: $ sudo stat .gvfs stat: cannot stat `.gvfs': Permission denied $ sudo ls -la ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs This means "rsync --one-file-system" (and similar options for find, tar...) cannot know this is a different file system they actually want to exclude, and fail on the permission denied error. Please note that it is GOOD AND CORRECT that root cannot copy the .gvfs directory. The real problem is that the stat fails. Workarounds =========== * bind-mount the file system you want to backup beforehand (see comment #67) See also ======= * Excellent description of the problem in bug 227724 * fuse-devel mailing list saying this will all be solved someday using "private namespaces" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/3497/focus=3502 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/7169/focus=7236 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/6197 (no answer at all) * Kernel documentation explaing the DoS http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/225361/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
