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SSHFS(1) User Commands SSHFS(1)

NAME

SSHFS - filesystem client based on ssh

SYNOPSIS

mounting

sshfs [user@]host:[dir] mountpoint [options]

unmounting

umount mountpoint

DESCRIPTION

SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a file system for Linux (and other operating systems with a FUSE implementation, such as Mac OS X or FreeBSD) capable of operating on files on a remote computer using just a secure shell login on the remote computer. On the local computer where the SSHFS is mounted, the implementation makes use of the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module. The practical effect of this is that the end user can seamlessly interact with remote files being securely served over SSH just as if they were local files on his/her computer. On the remote computer the SFTP subsystem of SSH is used.

If host is a numeric IPv6 address, it needs to be enclosed in square brackets.

OPTIONS

general options:

-o opt,[opt...]
mount options
-h --help
print help
-V --version
print version

SSHFS options:

-p PORT
equivalent to '-o port=PORT'
-C
equivalent to '-o compression=yes'
-F ssh_configfile
specifies alternative ssh configuration file
-1
equivalent to '-o ssh_protocol=1'
-o reconnect
reconnect to server
-o delay_connect
delay connection to server
-o sshfs_sync
synchronous writes
-o no_readahead
synchronous reads (no speculative readahead)
-o sync_readdir
synchronous readdir
-o sshfs_debug
print some debugging information
-o cache=BOOL
enable caching {yes,no} (default: yes)
-o cache_timeout=N
sets timeout for caches in seconds (default: 20)
-o cache_X_timeout=N
sets timeout for {stat,dir,link} cache
-o workaround=LIST
colon separated list of workarounds
none
no workarounds enabled
all
all workarounds enabled
[no]rename
fix renaming to existing file (default: off)
[no]nodelaysrv
set nodelay tcp flag in ssh (default: off)
[no]truncate
fix truncate for old servers (default: off)
[no]buflimit
fix buffer fillup bug in server (default: on)
-o idmap=TYPE
user/group ID mapping (default: none)
none
no translation of the ID space
user
only translate UID/GID of connecting user
file
translate UIDs/GIDs based upon the contents of uidfile and gidfile
-o uidfile=FILE
file containing username:uid mappings for idmap=file

-o gidfile=FILE
file containing groupname:gid mappings for idmap=file

-o nomap=TYPE
with idmap=file, how to handle missing mappings
ignore
don't do any re-mapping
error
return an error (default)
-o ssh_command=CMD
execute CMD instead of 'ssh'
-o ssh_protocol=N
ssh protocol to use (default: 2)
-o sftp_server=SERV
path to sftp server or subsystem (default: sftp)
-o directport=PORT
directly connect to PORT bypassing ssh -o slave communicate over stdin and stdout bypassing network
-o slave
communicate over stdin and stdout bypassing network
-o disable_hardlink
link(2) will return with errno set to ENOSYS. Hard links don't currently work perfectly on sshfs, and this confuses some programs. If that happens try disabling hard links with this option.
-o transform_symlinks
transform absolute symlinks to relative
-o follow_symlinks
follow symlinks on the server
-o no_check_root
don't check for existence of 'dir' on server
-o password_stdin
read password from stdin (only for pam_mount!)
-o SSHOPT=VAL
ssh options (see man ssh_config)

FUSE options:

-d -o debug
enable debug output (implies -f)
-f
foreground operation
-s
disable multi-threaded operation
-o allow_other
allow access to other users
-o allow_root
allow access to root
-o nonempty
allow mounts over non-empty file/dir

-o default_permissions enable permission checking by kernel

-o fsname=NAME
set filesystem name
-o subtype=NAME
set filesystem type
-o large_read
issue large read requests (2.4 only)
-o max_read=N
set maximum size of read requests
-o hard_remove
immediate removal (don't hide files)
-o use_ino
let filesystem set inode numbers
-o readdir_ino
try to fill in d_ino in readdir
-o direct_io
use direct I/O
-o kernel_cache
cache files in kernel
-o [no]auto_cache
enable caching based on modification times
-o umask=M
set file permissions (octal)
-o uid=N
set file owner (number)
-o gid=N
set file group (number)
-o entry_timeout=T
cache timeout for names (1.0s)
-o negative_timeout=T
cache timeout for deleted names (0.0s)
-o attr_timeout=T
cache timeout for attributes (1.0s)
-o ac_attr_timeout=T
auto cache timeout for attributes (attr_timeout)
-o intr
allow requests to be interrupted
-o intr_signal=NUM
signal to send on interrupt (10)
-o modules=M1[:M2...]
names of modules to push onto filesystem stack
-o max_write=N
set maximum size of write requests
-o max_readahead=N
set maximum readahead
-o async_read
perform reads asynchronously (default)
-o sync_read
perform reads synchronously

Module options:

[subdir]
-o subdir=DIR
prepend this directory to all paths (mandatory)
-o [no]rellinks
transform absolute symlinks to relative
[iconv]
-o from_code=CHARSET
original encoding of file names (default: UTF-8)
-o to_code=CHARSET
new encoding of the file names (default: ISO-8859-2)

AUTHORS

SSHFS has been written by Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>.

This man page was written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).

April 2008 SSHFS version 2.0