Sudo chown pcloud_client:pcloud_client /media/disk2/pcloud To remedy this, I created a shared mountpoint and mounted by bindfs: mkdir /media/disk2/pcloud pcloudĭrwxr-xr-x 2 pcloud pcloud 4096 Jun 11 12:58 Pictures I tried a couple permission games, but nothing worked.and I really think unwise to get fancy with pCloud (and all my data): drwxr-xr-x 4 pcloud pcloud 4096 Jun 11 14:15. From my normal account, this is the seen permissions. Unfortunately the mount in this client account is inaccessible from my normal account.

So from my normal Ubuntu 18.04 account terminal login: # allow X access to pcloud_client It appears that you must configure the pcloud service via the gui ui, but once configured, you can start it from the command line as that user (but it still needs some X access to start). This will create the pCloudDrive under /home/pcloud_client/pCloudDrive The best way I came up with was to create a user account on the system and log into pcloud via this user account. I'm not comfortable having the mount sitting in my home directory and also wish to move it.

Pcloud on linux