Re: GVFS locks root out

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:25 +0800, Izhar Firdaus wrote:
> Erm .. the all powerful root can not access a mount!! >.<
> 
> [izhar hikari ~]$ cd ~/.gvfs/F10-i686-Live.iso/
> [izhar hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]$ ls
> EFI  GPL  isolinux  LiveOS  README
> [izhar hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]$ su
> Password:
> [root hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]# ls
> ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied
> [root hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]# cd ..
> bash: cd: ..: Permission denied
> [root hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]# cd ../..
> bash: cd: ../..: Permission denied
> [root hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]# cd ../../..
> bash: cd: ../../..: Permission denied
> [root hikari F10-i686-Live.iso]# cd /home/izhar/
> [root hikari izhar]# ls -l .gvfs
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
> [root hikari izhar]# ls -ld .gvfs
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
> [root hikari izhar]# ls -al |grep gvfs
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
> d?????????   ? ?     ?             ?                ? .gvfs
> 
> Any way to configure it to allow root to access???

This has been discussed several times. Check the list archives, e.g. the
long thread starting at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-October/msg02751.html

poc