sshfs is a FUSE filesystem for Linux which allows directories on remote machines accessible via SSH to be mounted locally.
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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:
Error:
$ git clone https://.git
Cloning into ...
fatal: Invalid path…

Dhanabal M
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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 be using this as a read-only fs the cache is…

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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:
user@domain.com:/home /mnt/data-remote fuse.sshfs …

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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 also uses (the prefered) 644.
Is there any setting where I…

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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 bandwidth for these transfers.
I can't seem to find an…

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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 connection was lost. The dev that used to sit…

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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 it.
The configuration are:
Match Group ADGroup1
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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 (runserver). I suppose that this is because the…

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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 some-path/user#1 inside, which is home directory for…

Anton Ostrouhhov
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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:
[root@localhost main]# modprobe…

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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 current setup seems to work, unfortunately excluding…

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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 their own mistakes, from accidentally deleting some…

poinu
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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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My rsnapshot is freezing without errors
I try to make backup-system. I try to use rsnapshot.
description:
Client with rsnapshot put data in sshfs-mounted folder (sftp backup-server). I make ssh-key, mounted it, everything fine.
In rsnapshot conf I enabled link_dest=1, because defaults 0…

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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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