Just had a problem that really annoyed me with SSHFS and mount.fuse. See, fuse does not have an official mount program in Linux distributions. So there are a couple floating around out there…and the one I’m using is interesting in the sense that it does not tell you when you try and mount a non-existant remote directory!

So executing the following:

sshfs remoteuser@remotehost:/path/to/bin /path/local

Will give an error when /path/to/bin does not exist. But whack that into fstab and it uses the mount.fuse executable. So when you mount /path/to/bin from /etc/fstab, it does it successfully! What happens,

ls: /path/to/bin: Permission denied

And if you check the permissions

?---------  ? ?    ?      ?                ? bin

Also this post has highlighted to me how much I need to get in the habit of structuing the blog posts better…code / terminal output really shouldn’t look the same as text heh.