Is it possible to install Mountpoint for Amazon S3 without sudo privileges?
I tried with the following steps from the Mountpoint installation guide
cd ~ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/mountpoint-s3-release/latest/arm64/mount-s3.tar.gz mkdir -p ./mountpoint-s3 tar -C ./mountpoint-s3 -xvf ./mount-s3.tar.gz export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/mountpoint-s3/bin # and added the same to ~/.bashrc mkdir ./mnt/
However, when running the following command:
mount-s3 my-s3-bucket-name ./mnt
I ran into the following error.
fuse: failed to exec fusermount: No such file or directory
Error: Failed to create FUSE session
Caused by:
Operation not permitted (os error 1)
Error: Failed to create mount process
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Check fusermount Installation:
These distributions typically use the fuse package which includes fusermount. Check if it's installed:
dpkg -l fuse
If not installed, install it:
sudo apt install fuse
Verify PATH:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/mountpoint-s3/bin
Check Permissions:
- In rare cases, the fusermount executable might have incorrect permissions. Try:
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount # Replace path if different on your system
Re-attempt Mount:
- After following any of these steps, try mounting your S3 bucket again using:
mount-s3 my-s3-bucket-name ./mnt
You do need to have sudo access if you would like to install a package on the machine, and you would also typically need to have sudo permissions to be able to mount a file-system, as allowing any user to mount a file-system is a great way to allow folks to do nasty things, like mounting a file-system in /etc that contains the evil persons own copy of /etc/shadow or /etc/sudoers and this will allow them to either get root, or get sudo access for themselves.
So a direct answer to your question - you would usually need sudo to be able to install mountpoint for s3.
it seems like if the system already has fuse installed, I do not need sudo to run
mount-s3 example-bucket $HOME/mnt --allow-overwrite --allow-delete. So it looks like the answer is that sudo is generally required, but there's an exception for systems that already have fuse installed.
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I'm on an RPM-based system. So I get the error:
-bash: dpkg: command not found. Also, I will need sudo privileges to run something likesudo apt install fuse(orsudo dnf install fuse)You're right, dpkg is a Debian/Ubuntu package manager, and won't be found on RPM-based systems. Here's how to troubleshoot the fusermount issue on your RPM system:
Since fusermount is part of the FUSE libraries, install them using your package manager:
Bash sudo yum install fuse fuse-devel # For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
OR
sudo zypper install fuse fuse-devel # For OpenSUSE/SUSE