From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:51:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fuse: Add note about allowing other users to see filesystem (RHBZ#705200).
X-Git-Tag: 1.11.8~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b777a5a64926e9bf9b7109a0e4fb1332b20fa37f

fuse: Add note about allowing other users to see filesystem (RHBZ#705200).
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diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.pod b/fuse/guestmount.pod
index 6a2f39b..cada4cc 100644
--- a/fuse/guestmount.pod
+++ b/fuse/guestmount.pod
@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ If you want to debug the program, we recommend:
 
  guestmount [...] --trace --verbose /mnt
 
+=head1 NOTES
+
+=head2 Other users cannot see the filesystem by default
+
+If you mount a filesystem as one user (eg. root), then other users
+will not be able to see it by default.  The fix is to add the FUSE
+C<allow_other> option when mounting:
+
+ sudo guestmount [...] -o allow_other /mnt
+
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
 =over 4