Re: [sshfs] follow_symlinks weird behaviour.

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:51:38 +0100 Dawid Wróbel <dawid@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

OK. I already noticed someone else posted question about the same
symlinks problem and proper patch was posted.

Anyway, I have another problem. I am not sure if this the way it should
be or not, but I am beeing asked for the password everytime I boot
having the proper fstab entry and ssh keys in cromo/.ssh dir.

This is how the fstab looks like:
sshfs#cromo@xxxxxxxxxxx:  /mnt/klej fuse user  0 0

What happens if I try to mount as user and as root:

541:cromo@kromka:~$ mount /mnt/klej
542:cromo@kromka:~$ umount /mnt/klej
543:cromo@kromka:~$ sudo mount /mnt/klej/
cromo@xxxxxxxxxxx's password:                              

It doesn't ask for password when mounting as user, but it does if I 
mount as a root. Because of it doesn't mount nicely when I boot the
system. It would be nice if sshfs provided some option that would allow
to set the name of the user whose ssh key it should use. 
I know that I can simply copy the ssh key file into the /root/.ssh dir
but I guess the proper option would be better.

Also, is there any way to keep the mountpoint directory's permission
flags after mounting? Currently after mounting it overrides the
permissions with standard umask set on my system. This seems to be
security problem. -o umask option is not helpfull as well, becuase it
overrides the permissions of all the files in mountpoint directory,
too. Best of these two would be some kind of umask option that would
allow to do ug-rwx for example, so that we just remove some permissions
(instead of overwriting them) on both mountpoint and files inside.

-- 
Regards,
  Dawid Wróbel                          mailto:dawid@xxxxxxxx

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