Questions tagged [sshfs]
sshfs is a FUSE filesystem for Linux which allows directories on remote machines accessible via SSH to be mounted locally.
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Remote filesystem, performance and caching (davfs vs cifs vs sshfs)
I'm hosting files on a Hetzner Storage Box.
As for mounting those remotely, i have the choice between WebDAV, CIFS or sshfs.
Once mounted, those files will be accessed by liquidsoap.
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No read/write access to files owned by root, when using sshfs as root
I am using sshfs. I log in as root: sshfs [email protected]:/ /mnt/remotes/domain.pl-root (using keys). The login process is successful. When I create any file anywhere in /mnt/remotes/domain-root/, its ...
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When mounting external disk in fstab via fuse.sshfs it requires password although identityfile is set
Using Ubuntu 22.04. My fstab entry:
some_user@some_storagebox.com:~/somedir /mnt/volume fuse.sshfs defaults,allow_other,reconnect,_netdev,users,ServerAliveInterval=15,identityfile=/root/.ssh/id_rsa,...
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SSHFS performance tanks, why?
I have two Ubuntu 22.10 computers connected one to another via SSHFS. When I copy small files there is no problem but... once I start copying several gigabytes of data at a time, the performance sinks ...
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sshfs slow from one machine but not from another
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I have two web servers that connect to a file repository over sshfs:
/usr/bin/sshfs -f -o reconnect -o follow_symlinks -o allow_other \
repo@files3:/var/repo /var/repo
On one web server ...
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What is a robust alternative to sshfs (which has been recently orphaned)?
According to https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs, sshfs is now an orphaned project, with no active maintainers.
Is there a good, safe, robust alternative, one can use to mount remote filesystems?
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ssh and sshfs connection through nginx reverse proxy problems
I have a small annoying problem with ssh and sshfs connection to a server that is behind an nginx reverse proxy.
I use sshfs remotely to mount some folders from the server and ssh to connect to it and ...
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Restrict user's access to only one directory
ServerA needs to have a directory of ServerB mounted in a location, with write permissions.
I've been using SSHFS for this. I find SSHFS being very stable (100% reliable), while NFS was not so stable, ...
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SSHFS mount that freezes system on network disconnect
i am using SSHFS to mount a volume. But whenever anything causes a network disconnect or interruption my whole system will freeze up. Apps will be slow and unresponsive, and it is impossible for me to ...
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Remote access to `/dev/input` fails with permission error
I need to open a USB game controller device (joystick) remotely. This device is physically connected to server and is available for local user with permissions:
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root input 13, 0 ** /dev/...
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Docker: 'failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied' as non root user
What I want to achieve is to prepare Docker image in which every non-root user can make SSHF mount. MWE below:
Dockerfile:
FROM rocker/rstudio:4.0.3
USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get ...
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autofs is not mounting sshfs point while sshfs and mount -t fuse does
folks.
Recently I came over autofs and now trying to make my everyday life easier. I have a remote server that I use as I file share with a help of sshfs for years. So, I found some tutorials how to ...
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Enforce SFTP Blind file upload with a proxy
How to enforce SFTP blind upload with a proxy?
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I have the following nodes: a server, a proxy and multiple clients. The clients can initiate connection to the sever through the proxy node, ...
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SSHFS mount from fstab fails to authenticate
I created SSH key and transferred it to my target device using ssh-copy-id and now I can ssh targetUsername@targetHost -p 8798 without providing RSA key nor password for targetUsername@targetHost ...
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sshfs - howto view load and find bottlenecks
I got 2 dirs mounted by sshfs from remove server. And suspect those make my app so slowly (app generate many i/o operations in this).
I can use fdisk/iostat/iotop for diagnostic HDDs bottlenecks, but ...
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git clone does not work in (sshfs) mapped drive in windows
We have mounted Z: drive using sshfs in Windows 10. We are able to clone our repo in C: drive but not on the mapped network drive Z:
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$ git clone https://<repo>.git
Cloning into ...
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How to remount a lost sshfs in a docker container
I have a mounted volume in my docker container filesystem which is itself a mounted sshfs on my host. The thing is when (for a reason or another), my sshfs mount is lost, I also loose my volume in ...
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Read only filesystem populated on demand
Basically I have a file system that is accessible both by NFS and ssh. I need a copy of this on my local. But I want to pull only those files that I need (basically cache them on demand). Since I'll ...
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How to prevent sshfs from freezing everything?
How do I prevent SSHFS from freezing everything that attempts to access it when the server doesn't answer?
My fstab looks like this:
[email protected]:/home /mnt/data-remote fuse.sshfs ...
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SSHFS: Transport endpoint not connected
There are a number of posts across the Stack Exchange sites relating to the issue in the title, but none seem to offer that great a solution. This post I guess is a shameless attempt to bump the issue ...
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Trying to use sshfs to mount directory from a puppet exec
Ununtu 16.04 and 18.04 (same problem on both)
I am trying to use sshfs to mount a directory on another system, it works fine from the command line but when I execute the same command from a puppet "...
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How to make sshfs (from windows) use chmod 644 instead of 700 as default?
I'm using sshfs-win to connect windows explorer to linux box over ssh.
All good but new files are 700 instead of default 644.
rwx------ < bad
rw-r--r-- < default
sending a file over psftp ...
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How can I limit the bandwidth over an SSHFS mount?
I am transfering large media files to my local machine over an SSHFS mount. I am not too concerned about speed and want to provide a better QOS to other network services and so want to limit the ...
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Quota on filesystem mounted via SSHFS
On client C, a directory from server S is mounted via SSHFS (authenticated as user U). The relevant filesystem on S has a quota set. How can a user on C see her quota? The quota command run on C ...
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Keep losing sshfs connection on Linux Mint 19
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I set the dev up with a brand new laptop with a fresh OS install. Connection was still lost. Moved her to a different desk (which would be a different port on the switch in the closet), and the ...
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sshd Match directive
I encountered an issue on the way the sshd daemon is configured, here we have a couple of path exposed in RO by a server, the end user have to use the service in RO on their machine use sshfs to mount ...
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SSHFS mount to AWS Transfer for SFTP: cannot create regular file
I'm trying to setup an SSHFS mount point via Amazon's new service Transfer for SFTP. I can sftp into the endpoint just fine using sftp and can get/put files.
I can mount it using sshfs. I'm having ...
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Does SSHFS support ssh-agent forwarding?
I'd like to be able to mount my backup server on-demand by using my keys on my client terminal only as I don't leave my SSH keys on servers I manage.
Does SSHFS support ssh-gent forwarding and how?
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Mount a SSHFS volume into a Docker instance
I use SSHFS to mount a remote filesystem on my host and I want to be able to access it from inside a Docker container.
I mount the remote filesystem
sshfs -o idmap=user,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g) ...
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How to allow a Django application running on Apache to access a remote directory mounted with sshfs
I have a Django application that access a remote directory mounted with sshfs to upload files. The Django application has to read those files as well. The setup is running fine with the Django server (...
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SSHFS over a jumphost
I have 3 computers. A, B, and C.
A is the one I'm on now. B is a jumphost that I can SSH through from A to get to computer C using ssh -t B_host ssh C_host.
What I'd like to do is mount C's file ...
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With sshfs, what causes the error "fuse: bad mount point `<directory>': Permission denied"?
I ran across this error while trying to mount a remote file system to my local host using SSHFS.
The command I was using was in the form of:
sshfs root@remote:/path/to/dir ./localDir
I am logged ...
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Can't ssh through user with mounted via sshfs home dir
There are 2 users on machine#0: user#0 and user#1. I can mount the desired dir from user#0 on machine#0 executing:
sshfs user@hostname:/home/folder /home/folder
The thing is that /home/folder has ...
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use the arcfour cipher with sshfs and google cloud
I would like to use the arcfour cipher when mounting a drive using sshfs. However, if i specify sshfs -o Ciphers=arcfour my virtual machine resets the connection (I am able to sshfs without this ...
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CentOS 7: sshfs can't find fuse, even though fuse is loaded
When I try to run sshfs, I get the error fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first. I already ran sudo modprobe fuse, but it just returns immediately without any output and the error persists:
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How to properly chroot when using key based authentication within openssh-server
I'm running a Debian Stretch x86_64 server, with OpenSSH_7.4p1 Debian-10+deb9u3, OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017.
I want to use chroots in combination with OpenSSH server's internal SFTP system. My ...
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autofs can't mount a remote dir with sshfs on the host with deprecated key algorithm
Here is my configuration:
/etc/auto.master
/mnt/10 /etc/auto.10 uid=0,gid=0,--ghost
/etc/auto.10
root -fstype=fuse,allow_other,follow_symlinks,ssh_command=/etc/ssh/sshpass.10.sh :sshfs\#...
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Protect users from accidental delete
I am currently designing an incremental, rotative backup system for a remote filesystem to be accessed over SSHFS.
There is this one aspect I still haven't figured out: Protecting the users from ...
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Preserve (local) ownerships and permissions with sshfs
If I mount a sshfs point as root and use the option allow_other, then on the original server (SERVERA) the files are owned by the SSH user, and on the destination server (SERVERB) they are accessible (...
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SSHFS - serving remote dev code to my local browser, connecting to data behind a VPN
Apologies if this isn't the correct forum for this question.
I'm toying with the idea of putting some of my dev code on a VPS, so I can access it easily from different places, and push some of the ...
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Is it possible to disallow writes to a sshfs mountpoint?
Is it possible to disallow remote servers from writing to a sshfs mounted folder, either on server or client side?
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Preventing chown, chmod and rm -r over sshfs
I recently did a chown on my home dir but forgot I had used sshfs to map a drive on a remote server. :(
Is there a way to make sure no file altering command will "cross over" to the other side? :)
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sshfs file writes don't respect UID/GID mapping
I'm mounting my /home directory remotely using sshfs. Since UIDs and GIDs aren't the same on the server and client, I'm using idmap=file. Additionally, because of application requirements, I must ...
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My rsnapshot is freezing without errors
I try to make backup-system. I try to use rsnapshot.
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Client with rsnapshot put data in sshfs-mounted folder (sftp backup-server). I make ssh-key, mounted it, everything fine.
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GUI Package Management on Remote Server
Usually I manage the packages on remote debian servers via SSH using aptitude or apt-get in CLI mode. Aptitude also does have an ugly interactive mode. However, on desktop systems I love the comfort ...
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Permission denied: fusefs inside freebsd (freenas) jail
Host server: FreeNAS-9.10 (FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE)
I've installed a jail, for backup purposes, mounting the to-be-backed-up filesystems of the FreeNAS host inside the jail.
Backing up using borgbackup ...
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Can we use sshfs or NFS for LVM?
I want to create LVM using sshfs or NFS. Is it possible at all? I tried searching over web but did not find anything. Forgive me if this question is wrong for this community.
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Unison sync of sshfs mount - what can go wrong if the connection breaks?
I am syncing a local directory (say "/local") with a cloud storage server using Unison. The cloud storage is mounted to, say, "/mnt" via sshfs (with no-cache option), and I sync the two directories /...
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Rsync over sshfs skips filenames starting with underscore
I'm trying to sync a directory tree from OS X (10.11) to Ubuntu 14.04. While most of the files get transferred just fine, files with names starting with _ (underscore) do not.
Here is the command I ...
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Why very slow / no directory caching with SSHFS?
I have the below in /etc/fstab and when I cd ~/dat0 and then do anything in there e.g. tab complete, it takes 10 seconds every time. I.e. it doesn't cache anything.
Is there something that can be ...
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