Bug 397934

Summary:	Implement optional flag to allow samba/vmware shared folders to access Vaults (-o allow_other mount option)
Product:	[Unmaintained] Plasma Vault	Reporter:	Karsten.Fleischer
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Karsten.Fleischer 2018-08-27 15:04:52 UTC

Hi,

I frequently access files in my home dir from within a virtual machine (vmware) using their built-in "shared folders" mechanism. For reasons I never fully understood one has to mount encfs shares with the "-o allow_other" switch to be able to access a mounted encfs share this way. 

It would be cool if there is a flag/switch on the configuration of a Vault to pass this mount option to the underlying encfs call. Right now I have to manually mount the Vault from the command line rather than using the more convenient click on the Plasma interface.

Thanks already for the nice work on this feature, very much appreciated.

Ciao Karsten

Comment 1 Ivan Čukić 2018-08-29 13:45:43 UTC

You can define the additional mount options through the config file.

1. Stop kded (killall kded5)

2. Open the configuration file (~/.plasmavaultrc) and add a group:

  [CryfsBackend]
  extraMountOptions=--,-o,allow_other

  The same for EncFS - just [EncfsBackend].

2. Restart kded.

This is option is not going to be exposed in the UI.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396621 ***