using encfs on sshfs-mounted filesytem

[Matthew Flaschen]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> Someone on slashdot today posted a couple of interesting facts:
> 
> 1. All AIM users have access to 100MB of free space on members.aol.com
> that can be mounted with sshfs

Can we get details or a link? :)

> [H:~] ls -al /home/n7dr/aol-crypt
> total 8
> drwxrwxr-x   1 5022  501 4096 2007-06-27 20:51 .
> drwxr-xr-x 101 n7dr n7dr 4096 2007-06-27 20:28 ..
> 
> [H:~] touch /home/n7dr/aol-crypt/newfile
> touch: cannot touch `/home/n7dr/aol-crypt/newfile': Permission denied
> 
> <why can't I write??>

The permissions are wrong.  Note that the user is 5022 and the group
4096.  You can try:

sudo chown -R n7dr:n7dr /home/n7dr/aol-crypt

I don't know if this will work, because I'm not familiar with encfs, and
not that knowledgeable about encfs.

Matt Flaschen