Accessing GmailFS mount as a nonroot user

[agreatnate]

I am running Fedora Core 4 and have set up GmailFS on my computer to create a filesystem based on my gmail account. I have followed all of the directions as closely as possible, and I can successfully mount/view my directory as root.

As soon as I try and view the directory as a normal user however, it doesn't even treat it as a directory. When it is successfully mounted and viewable as root, a dir by a normal user shows:
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? GmailFS

for my mount. The mount command shows it as mounted:
/dev/fuse on /mnt/GmailFS type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev)

I have checked all the files I can think of, fusermount, mount.gmailfs, gmailfs.py and the device /dev/fuse and all have world read and/or execute permissions set as appropriate. I have been unable to find any other reference to this problem.

Thanks
Nathan

[jkburges]

...it worked for me.

Assuming mount point is "/mnt/gmail":

chown root:fuse /mnt/gmail
chmod 755 /mnt/gmail

Also, make sure that the entry in /etc/fstab has the "user" option, so that ordinary, non-root, users can mount/umount the device.

e.g.

/usr/share/gmailfs/gmailfs.py /mnt/gmail gmailfs noauto,user 0 0

This entry assumes that "/etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf" exists and has appropriate configuration (rather than specifying username etc in /etc/fstab).

Then, as a user who is part of the "fuse" group (may need to edit "/etc/group"):

mount /mnt/gmail

After that, the user who did the mount should be able to read/write to the mounted gmail account.

Have fun,
Jono