#1010756 davfs2: should allow non-root users to mount a davfs file system (like sshfs)

Package:
davfs2
Source:
davfs2
Description:
mount a WebDAV resource as a regular file system
Submitter:
Vincent Lefevre
Date:
2022-05-09 10:21:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1010756#5
Date:
2022-05-09 10:20:18 UTC
From:
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When I installed davfs2, a dialog box said that it needed to be
setuid to allow non-root users to mount a davfs file system.
Moreover, mount.davfs also needs an entry in /etc/fstab, otherwise
one gets an error "no entry for ... found in /etc/fstab".

It should be fixed to make these things unneeded. As a comparison,
sshfs doesn't need all that. I don't see what could be different
between sshfs and davfs2 concerning permissions (e.g. both are
based on FUSE).