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sshfs is a FUSE filesystem for Linux which allows directories on remote machines accessible via SSH to be mounted locally.

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Access SSHFS Share with Apache/Python

I've got a bit of a complicated setup going on here, and, well, it's not quite working. I have a Python script that parses a directory for certain "attributes" in the directory name (how the script works isn't necessarily important - it runs just…
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What is going on with openssh-xattr?

For ArchLinux, I've seen this package surface: openssh-xattr https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58363 As it seems a patched openssh that adds xattr facilities to the sftp ssh internal server. What's going on with this patch? Will it arrive…
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How to set up sshfs to use www-data

I have 2 Debian systems, prod1 and prod2, with their respective users, prod1 and prod2 as well. I want to setup an sshfs with autofs to have a directory on prod1 in the /home/prod1/ that the user www-data could use independently on one server or the…
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Fuse, how to set the user that owns the directory?

I'm having some permissions issues on a Fuse mounted directory and I'm a bit confused about how to set the owner. I have a media directory on a server that apache uses to create and serve some user generated files (it's a Django user media…
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Where to define sshfs options when using autofs?

I have used the following guide: http://www.tjansson.dk/?p=84 to mount an SSHFS using Automount. The implementation works great. However, I need to add an option to SSHFS as defined…
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sshfs fail when remote server relogins on login

I'm trying to mount a remote disk using sshfs. The code is: sshfs user@server:/ /home/user/folder The problem could be that the remote server relogins the connecting user under a different user upon login. And therefore when i try to use this code…
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How and when should I mount a remote filesystem using SSHFS?

I managed to get SSHFS working smoothly. I've added the following line to my /etc/fstab: sshfs#xxx@remote_host:/path_to/remote/content /path_to/local/content fuse \ comment=sshfs,noauto,user,exec,allow_other,reconnect,kernel_cache, \ …
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Mount SSHFS via FSTAB - Permissions Problem

I am having trouble mounting a remote file system via SSHFS/Fstab. The Client is a Ubuntu 10.10 box. The remote device is a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro. I created ssh keys already and can login without a password from the Ubuntu device to the NAS. If…
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traffic shaping in linux: ssh vs sshfs

I have a regular linux box with limited banwidth which I acess through SSH. From time to time I transfer files to/from this box with sshfs/sftp. Please advise me on how can I set up the traffic shaping on this box so that the (interactive) ssh…
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Failing SSHFS connection drags down the system

From time to time my sshfs mount fails. All programs using the mount freeze when it happens. I can't even ls anything or use nautilus. Is there a way to find out what's the cause and how to handle it? I've noticed regular SSH sessions to the server…
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How to provide web access to interact with a file system?

I need to be able to provide web access to interact with a file system (upload/download files). In general people will access these files using sshfs but in a pinch we want people to have web access to these files. We want to run a web server,…
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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 root@domain.pl:/ /mnt/remotes/domain.pl-root (using keys). The login process is successful. When I create any file anywhere in /mnt/remotes/domain-root/, its owner and group are root. So it seems that I am…
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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,uid=101,gid=101,ServerAliveCountMax=3 0 0 Check…
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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 to zero for more than half the time. See…
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sshfs slow from one machine but not from another

Situation 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 this mount point can be used with "normal" speed,…
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