On sam, 2007-02-10 at 00:25 +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Quoting Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 
> > Courtesy of Florent Mertens, I have been getting regular NTFS-3g updates on 
> > my
> > Ubuntu Edgy system.  This update, which I installed last night, appears 
> > to have
> > caused a regression with respect to using NTFS-3g to hold a local CVS tree.
> > When I backed off to 0.20070118-BETA, but left the latest FUSE release
> > (fusermount version: 2.6.3) unchanged, the problem disappeared.
> > 
> > What I was seeing was intermittent problems reported by "cvs update":
> > RCS file: /repo/x/foo.h,v
> > retrieving revision 1.1
> > retrieving revision 1.3
> > Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.3 into foo.h
> > cvs update: cannot change mode of x/foo.h: Operation not permitted
> > x/foo.h already contains the differences between 1.1 and 1.3
> > 
> > Since the problem was intermittent I didn't get a chance to really 
> > investigate.
> > 
> > > The default_permissions FUSE option is transparently used from now if any
> > > of the uid, gid, umask, fmask, or dmask mount option is used. This means
> > > that probably many user will complain about "permission denied" errors. If
> > > you want full access to everybody by default then don't use any of these
> > > mount options. Otherwise you must configure them correctly.
> > 
> > Could this be related?  Since the problem was intermittent, I assume not.  
> 
> Yes, it's because you use the umask and gid mount options, so the
> default_permissions option gets turned on.
> 
> Do you run ntfs-3g as root or setuid root?

I think this is a question for me ;)
(on the package from my repo) ntfs-3g is setuid root with fuse group,
and all users of the admin group are add to the fuse group.

Best regards,

Flo


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