Hi,

I agree with you stef: " fuse is meant to be used by anyone"

Thanks for pointing somewhat in the right direction.

But I found your suggestion insufficient, further the device /dev/fuse is on my system (centos 5.3) belongs to user and group root.

So the group fuse got nothing to do there.

After poking around a bit(=looking for files that have fuser as group) I found that the solution is undocumented but quite simple: give other excecute rights on the command that performs the actual usermount:
Standard it is like this:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root fuse 23544 Sep  3 21:18 /bin/fusermount
we change it:

chmod +x  /bin/fusermount
to
-rwsr-x--x 1 root fuse 23544 Sep  3 21:18 /bin/fusermount
 

 Joost Ringoot

The Universe :-)