Re: mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 09:30:56PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:42:40PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote:
> >> Thanks for posting the diff.  I did manage to build the package locally,
> >> but that in itself isn't of much use.  I'm afraid I have to ask now, how
> >> to I apply this package into my declaration so that it is available from
> >> my system to test?
> >
> > If I understand your use case correctly, you can use the built
> > mount.davfs program directly from /gnu/store, like this:
> >
> > $(guix build -f davfs2)/sbin/mount.davfs [...]
> 
> hm.. alright, then I did test that already.  It fails saying:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ./sbin/mount.davfs: program is not setuid root
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> and nothing else. :/

Sorry, I don't remember the earlier discussion or what you are trying to
accomplish. But it's expected that nothing in /gnu/store is setuid.
You'd have to use sudo or become root.