does osxfuse and encfs work in 10.15 (catalina)?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Apr 9 14:18:12 UTC 2021


On Apr 9, 2021, at 07:33, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> I started to use a macbook air running catalina (10.15) and installed
> first of all fink. 
> 
> It took some time to install encfs and osxfuse (currently version 2.7)
> however when I want to use encfs on a specific directory I obtain 
> 
> 
> ,----
> [+]
> | EncFS Password: 
> | /opt/sw/lib/osxfusefs.fs/Support/osxfusefs.kext failed to load -
> | (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the
> | system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
> | the OSXFUSE file system is not available (71)
> | fuse failed.  Common problems:
> |  - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
> |  - invalid options -- see usage message
> | EncFS Password: 
> | 
> `----
> 
> According to the fink team this is (partially) caused by the fact that
> 10.15 locked down a lot of system features, including kernel extensions.
> 
> 
> So my question is, does encfs and osxfuse work in Macports?

As far as I know, osxfuse still cannot be installed using MacPorts on macOS 10.15 or later.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59316



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