Sudo says "command not found" for script in EncFS (no root access to EncFS mount?)

When an encrypted directory is mounted using EncFS as a regular user, you cannot execute a script in it with sudo (as root): $ sudo /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh sudo: /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh: command not found This is a security feature, but how can I still grant root permissions to this mounted directory (without mounting as root)? # More details I am using Arch Linux , and I have an encrypted directory using EncFS : sudo pacman -S encfs usbpath="/run/media/yeti/usbdrive" encfs "$usbpath/.encfs" "$usbpath/encfs" echo 'echo hello world' > "$usbpath/encfs/test.sh" sudo chmod +x "$usbpath/encfs/test.sh" Then this command works just like expected: $ /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh hello world But when I use sudo, I get an error: $ sudo /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh sudo: /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh: command not found Then I realized that this is a security feature of EncFS, which is actually quite good. When I do a directory listing as root (after su), I find the following: $ ls /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/ ls: cannot access '/run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs': Permission denied [...] d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? encfs drwxrwxrwx 1 yeti yeti 0 Sep 30 00:31 .encfs [...] But in my case, I am on a system where I am in fact root, and where sudo could be passwordless. Therefore, this security feature is only getting in the way. However, I do not want to mount the encrypted directory as root either (because then I'd need to run my filemanager and other applications as root too). What I did as a workaround to this problem is to copy the file outside of the encrypted directory (cp "$usbpath/encfs/test.sh" /tmp/test.sh), and then execute it as root (sudo /tmp/test.sh). Next to documenting this question for other people who may experience the same issue, the question I still have left is: Is there a better way to do this?