On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 12:58:27PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote:
>
> Thanks for that hint. SpaceFM in conjunction with udevil is great. So I can
> get rid of this ugly gvfs. gfvs is broken by design, because it creates a
> ~/.gvfs directory which is not accessible by root. So every backup tool
> fails when accessing this directory.
>
> It is untypical for Unix systems that root cannot access everything on the
> local machine. I'm wondering how they achieve that, it should not be
> possible at all.

I don't know how gvfs does it, but it can be done with a user file system.
It happens all the time when I use sshfs. An ssh file system allows only the user
who mounted it to access it. Since sshfs, once it gains control, can do as it
pleases, if can simply refuse to allow opeations under whatever criteria are coded
into it.

-- hendrik