When attempting to mount a mountpoint specified in my fstab with the following options: UUID=40666DD7666DCE6A /mnt/haynes ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,nodiratime,users,noauto 0 2 I get the response: Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged Personally, I don't mind having to elevate something if there's a good reason, however, according to `equery u ntfs3g`, there's no way for me to satisfy the above requirements: ❯ equery u ntfs3g [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for sys-fs/ntfs3g-2021.8.22: U I + + acl : Add support for Access Control Lists - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces + + mount-ntfs : Install mount.ntfs symlink - - ntfsdecrypt : Build and install the ntfsdecrypt application. + + ntfsprogs : Enable ntfsprogs - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well + + xattr : Add support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) If I simply chmod +s the ntfs3g binary, I get an error: Mount is denied because setuid and setgid root ntfs-3g is insecure with the external FUSE library. Either remove the setuid/setgid bit from the binary or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged But there's no USE flag to enable internal FUSE, so I'm stuck. This is a problem for attaching arbitrary ntfs drives which are in my fstab (eg: KDE just complains that it can't do it) and it's a problem for my script that optimistically attempts to copy data to a drive if it's attached because the mount command. I can, however, mount the drive via KDE's methods if I don't have it in my fstab - but that just means that my script can't do it easily. Please allow building with an internal FUSE and setting suid (I'm sure these used to be USE flags?) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install ntfs-3g 2. create fstab entry for an ntfs drive, allowing users to mount 3. attempt to mount & fail to do so Actual Results: Fails to mount Expected Results: Should mount, if ntfs-3g can be compiled with the appropriate flags
~arch's ntfs3g-2021.8.22-r3 (note -r3) will use internal and has a USE=suid, but hasn't been stabilized yet (may be a bit overdue).
This was fixed in >=sys-fs/ntfs3g-2021.8.22-r1. Please upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 822024 ***
Filed bug 834043 for stabilisation.
just to double-check: I have 2021.8.22 installed, but 2021.8.22-r3 is available Now I'd assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that 2021.8.22-r3 was a release candidate for 2021.8.23, but the response here seems to suggest I should install 2021.8.22-r1+? or do rc version numbers refer to the next release, ie 2021.8.23? tbh, I just want to be able to mount ntfs volumes without privileges, so whatever works? (:
(In reply to Davyd McColl from comment #4) > just to double-check: > > I have 2021.8.22 installed, but 2021.8.22-r3 is available > > Now I'd assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that 2021.8.22-r3 was a release > candidate for 2021.8.23, but the response here seems to suggest I should > install 2021.8.22-r1+? or do rc version numbers refer to the next release, > ie 2021.8.23? > > tbh, I just want to be able to mount ntfs volumes without privileges, so > whatever works? (: -rN is a revision, not an RC :)
aha! thanks, will try an update (:
