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date: "2003-11-13T07:13:39Z"
title: sshfs Redux
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A couple people have asked about <abbr title='Secure Shell Filesystem'>sshfs</abbr> (one of the filesystems included with <a href='http://lufs.sf.net/'><acronym title='Linux User-Space Filesystem'>LUFS</acronym></a>.  Well, here's how I've got things set up:
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The following command installs <a href='http://lufs.sf.net/'><acronym title='Linux User-Space Filesystem'>LUFS</acronym></a> in <a href='http://www.debian.org/'>Debian</a>:
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# install requisite packages<br />
apt-get install lufs-source lufs-utils module-assistant debhelper<br />
# compile and install kernel module<br />
module-assistant auto-install lufs<br />
# load module<br />
/sbin/modprobe lufs<br />
# set lufs mount <acronym title='Set User-ID'>SUID</acronym><br />
chmod a+s `which lufsmnt`<br />
</kbd>
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Here's the <code>/etc/fstab</code> entry for our sample filesystem:
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none    /mnt/snow-www    lufs    fs=sshfs,rw,user,nosuid,host=www,username=pabs,noauto    0 0
</samp>
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<abbr title='Secure Shell Filesystem'>sshfs</abbr> uses your existing <code>~/.ssh/config</code> settings.  In this case, we're concerned about the <code>proxycommand</code> stuff:
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Host www<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;proxycommand ssh -A phoenix.snowman.net nc -q 10 %h ssh<br />
</samp>
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The last thing to do is create the mount directory, and make sure the ownership is correct:
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# create directory &amp; fix ownership<br />
mkdir /mnt/snow-www &amp;&amp; chown pabs:pabs /mnt/snow-www<br />
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And that should be it.  Caveats: <code>lufsumount</code> seems to be a little picky, your <a href='http://lufs.sf.net/'><acronym title='Linux User-Space Filesystem'>LUFS</acronym></a> mounts won't show up in <code>df</code>, and <abbr title='Secure Shell Filesystem'>sshfs</abbr> doesn't do any client-side caching, so things are a wee bit slow.
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