[aklug] Re: mounting with sshfs (Debian Lenny)

Ryan wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:55:24 -0800
> Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi. I'm trying to get an ssh connection mounted to a directory in my
>> home directory (using my user-level account).
>>
>> I used this command:
>> sshfs
>> myusername@example.com:/home/myusername/ /home/myusername/example.com/
>>
>> But then I received the error
>> fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
>>
>> I went ahead and changed the permissions of /dev/fuse (while
>> wondering if that was really a secure thing to do...)
>>
>> Tried again, but then I received this message:
>> fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied
>>
>> Before I go ripping anymore holes in my system security, I thought
>> I'd check with you guys. Is this really something that I have to do
>> as root?
>>
>> I tried adding my user to the fuse group, but that didn't seem to
>> work. Maybe extra sudo permissions would be more appropriate...?
>>
>>
>
> Works fine for me in hardy as non-root, did you logout after adding your
> user to the fuse group? Is the fuse module modprobed?
>
> Also if you just call
> sshfs user@host: mountpoint
> it will automatically mount the user's home directory.
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Logging-out seemed to work. Thanks!

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Christopher Howard
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