[SOLVED] fuse mounts accessibility

601 · 11-13-2010, 08:05 AM

I'm having an issue with access to a fuse filesystem (namely sshfs) mount point across multiple users.

I mounted the filesystem under a normal user shell on a directory (eg. /media/sshfs) with permissions set to 755 (the directory belongs to the user performing the mount).

The filesystem mounts fine under current user and the data is accessible however if I try to access the mount point from a different shell I cannot. I can't even list the directory mount point in /media; ls output is like:

Code:

d?????????  ? ?   ?    ?    ? sshfs/

I get the same output if I do ls from a root console.

I'm guessing the issue has to do with fuse, which I understand works in user space, so the mount point would not be accessible for other users.
I just need to know if there is a way to make a fuse mount point available to other logged in users as well.

EDIT:
I actually found an answer as it appears to be a security feature of fuse (from this thread: http://serverfault.com/questions/188...se-file-system)
The solution is to add option:

Code:

-o allow_other

to the mount command.

archtoad6 · 11-14-2010, 05:44 AM

Thanks for posting the solution. That's the LQ spirit. I have added to your rep.

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