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[quesetion] Does KBFS depend on the GUI? #3252

Open vendion opened 8 years ago

vendion commented 8 years ago

It seems that for the Keybase file system to actually work the alpha GUI needs to be running, is this correct? If so are there any plans to make it work from just the command line, for example headless box/box without running graphics server, via something like keybase filesystem mount or something that can be ran as a system daemon?

cjb commented 8 years ago

We do have some headless support. Are you on Linux or OS X?

vendion commented 8 years ago

Well I have a mix of OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and PacBSD. The OS X box I can just run the GUI client for, but the others some of them run X11 and others are just headless servers.

cjb commented 8 years ago

Okay, so on the non-OSX machines you can run_keybase and then keybase login and keybase unlock to get KBFS working at /keybase.

cjb commented 8 years ago

(I don't know whether KBFS works on *BSD, would be curious to find out.)

vendion commented 8 years ago

Keybase version 0.8.25 works under *BSD for sure (but lacks KBFS support) when I get some free time and other things working I plan on trying to build the newer version for PacBSD and see if KBFS works. If it is just using FUSE to mount the filesystem then it should. I'll need to see exactly which FUSE driver keybase is using to know for sure.

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cjb commented 8 years ago

Yeah, I'm wondering specifically about KBFS. It does use FUSE.