Check write permissions while mounting using fusermount #181
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fusermount doesn't let user mount unless they have write permissions on the mount-point. It also doesn't give an informative error in the output. Add a check to detect that the user has write access and throw error if they don't.
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fusermount doesn't let user mount unless they have write permissions on the mount-point(reference). It also doesn't give an informative error in the output. Add a check to detect that the user has write access and return a useful error if they don't.