Questions tagged [sshfs]
sshfs is a FUSE file system which allows to mount a directory on a remote system over SSH. It requires the SFTP subsystem being installed (default with OpenSSH server, but not included with smaller SSHd implementations like e.g. dropbear) on the remote system.
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sshfs to a host requiring OTP pw
In my environment I have: a Jenkins build server that I can ssh into using private/public keys. I can use sshfs to mount its file system on my local pc (running WSL on Windows 11, ugh but I can't ...
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Running sshfs through ssh proxy and passing in passwords: why does this work?
I have a remote machine that I must access through a proxy, and so I have set up the remote's ssh alias like so: Host server HostName server-ip User my-username ProxyCommand ssh my-proxy-...
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Need option to prevent SSHFS from changing server's file modification date on download(!)
SSHFS changes modification date (not access date) of server files on download(!). Is there an option/setting to prevent that? The problems this causes include: after the next download, you can't sort ...
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Accessing Docker Unix Socket from a Podman Container on a Remote Server (SSH)
I'm trying to access a Docker Unix socket on a remote server from within a Podman container (offen/docker-volume-backup). I've (root-)mounted the entire root filesystem of the remote server using ...
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Did I accidentally delete files? How can I recover them?
I’m a new PhD student and I’m dealing with a serious issue. I tried to map a directory from Server A (/home/lab/Desktop) to Server B (/home/usr/labDesktop) because Server B has better computing power. ...
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sshfs receives `mount[5889]: read: Connection reset by peer` when ran from systemd but works manually
I can't figure how to enable more verbose logging to a systemd .mount file, but here we go my file is mnt-kreijstal.mount and has: # file is `/etc/systemd/system/mnt-kreijstal.mount` [Unit] ...
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No ability to delete files on sftp mounted by sshfs
I mounted sftp dir via sshfs like: cat <sensitive_data> | sshfs -o password_stdin,allow_other,default_permissions,uid=0,gid=0 $USER@$HOSTNAME: $MOUNT_DIR -oauto_cache,reconnect And the problem ...
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Why does rsync not copy the other execute bit when copying to an sshfs mount?
I have a mounted sshfs drive at /mnt/backup_datascrape with permission rwxrwxr-x. I am trying to copy a directory foo with permission rwxrwxr-x to that mount using rsync while preserving the ...
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How to mount sftp server with sshfs
It is simple enough to connect sftp server with lftp command without any key or password : lftp 192.168.31.130:3721 lftp 192.168.31.130:~> ls drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 3488 Dec 22 20:17 ...
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Operation not permitted when writing in sshfs
I use image-backup to backup my Rpi. I backup directly on an FTP server and I do so via sshfs. This is how I connect in my /etc/fstab: MYUSERNAME@MYSERVER:/home/myuser/rpi_backup /mnt/MYSERVER fuse....
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For SSHFS, can directories and file inherit same permissions as parent directory?
Further to this post, I found out that if the permissions for other should be ---, then I can use (it seems to work): setfacl -R -m d:o::0 test But when using SSHFS, permissions won't be retained. ...
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Use sshfs session to run commands on the remote
Something has happened with the SSH process on a remote server so that now when trying to connect it rants: kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer It looks like the SSH daemon ...
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Processes in uninterruptible sleep when the server is not responding
I'm using sshfs to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server. The command I'm using is: sshfs -o follow_symlinks host:dir mountpoint -o reconnect Sometimes, after a ...
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Can not unmount ssh connection after hibernation or momentary connection loss
I work on a mounted directory to a cluster through sshfs. However, sometimes my connection fails for a second and the mounting stops working. The problem is that I can not umount to be able to restart ...
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how to backup remote location containing hard links, without rsync
I want to backup backintime-data from an internet-facing, remote machine running debian 11 (src). That is the hardlinks-part from the title. I want to back it up to a (very dumb) NAS (dest) in the ...
