Truecrypt on Linux (permission confusion)

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Published on 2012-10-29T10:54:49Z Indexed on 2012/10/29 11:05 UTC
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I am pretty inexperienced with Linux... So please bare with me here.

I keep running into permission problems when working with truecrypt on Linux. Currently, I run truecrypt as root to mount my encrypted devices and containers. This all works fine, but I have to interact with the mounted volumes in the terminal as root, and I can't seem to use many of my applications on the files... Either because they can't be run as root or I don't know how to use them from the terminal. This seems really inconvenient to me.

How do people deal with this? Am I missing something, or is this just the way things have to be?

I am on Fedora 17 (KDE spin) now but I have this trouble with any distro I try.

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