pefs doesn't work as regular user

[Gleb Kurtsou]

On (06/09/2014 14:40), Russell L. Carter wrote:
> Greetings,
> So this is odd.  I followed the instructions at
> 
> http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pefs
> 
> on one system, and as a regular user it works fine.
> 
> But I try it on my laptop, and I get the following:
> 
> rcarter at knuth> kldstat -m pefs
> Id  Refs Name
>  27    1 pefs
> rcarter at knuth> mkdir ~/docs
> rcarter at knuth> pefs addchain -f -Z ~/docs
> Enter parent key passphrase:
> Reenter parent key passphrase:
> rcarter at knuth> pefs mount ~/docs ~/docs
> pefs mount: /home/rcarter/docs: Operation not permitted
> rcarter at knuth> sudo pefs mount ~/docs ~/docs
> rcarter at knuth> pefs unmount ~/docs
> pefs unmount: unmount of /usr/home/rcarter/docs failed: Operation not
> permitted
> rcarter at knuth> sudo pefs unmount ~/docs
> rcarter at knuth> /bin/rm -rf ~/docs
> rcarter at knuth>
> 
> So it works as root but not as $USER.  I don't see anything different
> about /etc/group on either system.

sysctl vfs.usermount ?

File system can be mounted only by root unless sysctl vfs.usermount=1.


> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Russell