Mounting SSHFS remote directory in Fstab

Mounting SSHFS remote directory in Fstab

Sshfs is used to mount  a remote directory on another server to our local server.This can be done by installing the sshfs package and a package named fuse.

The mounting is done as below :

sshfs USERNAME@HOSTNAME_OR_IP:/PATH LOCAL_MOUNT_POINT SSH_OPTIONS

sshfs sessy@mycomputer:/home/sessy /mnt/sessy -C -p 9876

To unmount the remote system :

fusermount -u LOCAL_MOUNT_POINT

To mount it again :

fusermount -u LOCAL_MOUNT_POINT

We have to do ssh-keygen inorder to avoid asking the password upon mounting.

This can be done as below :

Create private and public keys using ssh-keygen commands

ssh-keygen

This will generate  private key in /root/.ssh/id_rsa and public key in /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Then copy the content in id_rsa.pub to users /.ssh/authorized_keys file in remote server from which we are mounting

You can use scp to copy the file.

Then try to connect it using sshuser2remotehost ,this time password will not be asked.

Then mount is on fstab using the following settings :

sshfs REMOTEUSER@REMOTE:REMOTEMOUNTPOINT LOCALMOUNTPOINT -pREMOTEPORTNUMBER -o uid=LOCALUSERID -o gid=DESIREDGROUPID -o idmap=user -o IdentityFile=/root/.ssh/YOURKKEYFILE -o allow_other

Eg:sshfs#user@remote.com:/home/user/audio /var/www/html/audio

fuse

IdentityFile=/root/.ssh/id_rsa,idmap=user,allow_other,port=10022,uid=0,gid=0,rw,nosuid,nodev

0 0

Reference : http://ewald.tienkamp.nl/2010/01/19/mounting-a-remote-file-system-over-ssh-using-sshfs-and-non-standard-settings/