How to configure sshfs ?

Neil Cherry ncherry at linuxha.com
Sat Aug 25 04:31:02 UTC 2007


Paul Johnson wrote:
> I just learned that fuse-ssh allows one to mount drives via ssh. How
> cool!  As root, it works fine.
> 
> When regular users try it, it fails because they don't have permission
> to /dev/fuse.
> 
> One option is to add users one by one to the fuse group in /etc/group.
>  But I don't have time to do that, and there are hundreds of users.
> 
> Can you tell me a way to allow all users who sit at the console to use
> sshfs mounts?  I tried to add the group user to the group fuse, but
> got plenty of errors with that one.  Maybe there is some hal or udev
> thing you can tell me to do?
> 

man sudo

Setup up sudo (using visudo) so that the user had permission to
use the commands.

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