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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:36:28 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:22:03AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > define "mount owner".  Right now mount requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN which means
> > fairly privilegued.
> 
> FUSE uses a suid root helper (as explained below).  Please read the
> whole mail.

In that case you're totally out of luck.  This is not a setup we want to
account for.