• About permissions on mounted file systems.

    From SpreadTooThin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 7 20:17:24 2016
    I have two computers that are connected by ssh.
    There is a file system on one computer that I want to mount on the other.
    I am using sshfs (fuse) to mount the remote file system locally.

    The file system is owned by root.

    I mounted the file system using sshfs as root

    sudo sshfs root@remote:/fs /mnt/remote

    The question here is, as I mounted the file system as root I chmod/chgrp the mounted file system and restrict access to a specific user?

    Does that user need to exist on both systems?
    I'm mounting on RHEL 6.6

    May be I should have mounted the file sytem in my users home directory rather than /mnt ?

    Suggestions?

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  • From SpreadTooThin@21:1/5 to SpreadTooThin on Sun Jan 10 09:06:57 2016
    On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 9:17:26 PM UTC-7, SpreadTooThin wrote:
    I have two computers that are connected by ssh.
    There is a file system on one computer that I want to mount on the other.
    I am using sshfs (fuse) to mount the remote file system locally.

    The file system is owned by root.

    I mounted the file system using sshfs as root

    sudo sshfs root@remote:/fs /mnt/remote

    The question here is, as I mounted the file system as root I chmod/chgrp the mounted file system and restrict access to a specific user?

    Does that user need to exist on both systems?
    I'm mounting on RHEL 6.6

    May be I should have mounted the file sytem in my users home directory rather than /mnt ?

    Suggestions?

    I found a solution using -o allow_others as part of sshfs.
    However the questions still remains.

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