Gnome Encfs Manager

Mounted stash allows read only access

Asked by kevin.quiggle

Setup: ENCFS stash created on "Computer One" - this stash mounts correctly and allows read/write access. The user login name is "somebody", and the file permissions on the stash show the owner as "somebody".

Computer One is then shut down, and the exact same stash is mounted on "Computer Two". On Computer Two, the stash mounts, but only read-only access is given. The user login name is "somebody", but the file permissions on the stash show the owner as "root". Attempting to access the stash files as root (using sudo) gives a permission denied error.

Both computers are Ubuntu Linux machines. I have done this operation previously with other computers with no problems; why am I now having this problem?

P.S.

If I shutdown Computer Two and then mount the stash again on Computer One it works properly without access permission problems, which I interpret to mean there are no problems with the stash itself.

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kevin.quiggle (kevin-quiggle) said : 		#1

Found the problem - it was *not* an Encfs issue.

The problems was that the stash in question is on a server, and is accessed via NFS. Unfortunately, I had failed to update the NFS configuration on Computer Two; one I corrected the NFS mount the problem was resolved.

I apologize if anyone spent any time looking at Encfs on this problem. Hopefully, if anyone else has a similar problem with an Encfs stash it will give them some clues on where to look.