Comment 42 for bug 225361

Phillip Susi wrote:
> That is really just a contributing factor, not the problem. The
> problem is that people are having utilities fail when they run into
> .gvfs because root can't access it ( and this is by design, not a bug
> ).

It is a bug in that, under Unix, by design, that should *never* happen
to a process running as root.

> The utilities in question shouldn't be messing with .gvfs in the first
> place, so a simple solution is to move it somewhere they aren't going
> to run into it.

Sorry, that's not possible. As root, it's entirely valid, and not
uncommon, for me to run `find / ...' which will descend and find .gvfs
wherever to decide to move it to.

Nikolaus Rath and S B, take a look at my earlier comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/225361/comments/11 I
understand this configuration of FUSE has been chosen because of
security concerns, as opposed to using its allow_users or allow_root
options. However, I'm not sure those concerns remain valid given Ubuntu
automatically mounts the filesystems on a USB flash drive I insert, and
I doubt every piece of filesystem code in the kernel is robust against
maliciously concocted corrupt filesystems.