Re: about the root-can't-access-gvfs bug ...

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
<sameerds gmail com> wrote:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534284
>
> I was looking around to see if a fix for this bug is expected any time
> soon. I was surprised to see no  mention of it in the gvfs-list
> archives! I am just an end user, but was hoping for an opinion from
> the people directly involved.
>
> It's unfortunate that FUSE will not allow root access to the .gvfs
> directory. A suggestion had come up that the gvfs should simply be
> mounted elsewhere such as /tmp/gvfs-username or something. Is that a
> viable option? Whether or not that is the case, what are the current
> thoughts about resolving this?
>

Mounting in /tmp is not a viable option, no.
Whatever tools you are using are wrong in assuming that running as
root guarantees them full access to the whole filesystem.