Sshfs passwordless

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Does any one know ssh -i equivalent for sshfs ? I want to use sshfs without promting for a password

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The best solution would be ssh-agent as Zoredache suggests.

Another is to put your key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa, that way it will be detected automatically. (Use id_dsa for DSA keys.)

Yet another is ~/.ssh/config. Put something like this in it (see manual page of ssh_config for further details)

Host somebox.somedomain.tld
  User joe
  IdentityFile ~/key_for_somebox

Host *
  IdentityFile ~/key_for_everything_else

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Ssh – How to sudo over sshfs

This will vary depending on the OS of the server you are connecting to. For centOS 5 you would add to the sshfs mount options:

-o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server"

For Ubuntu 9.10 (I think, might be 9.04, but it's probably the same for both) or Debian you would add:

-o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server".

To find an the correct path for other systems running openSSH run

sudo grep Subsystem /etc/ssh/sshd_config

and look for the location of the sftp-server binary.

You might need to setup sudo with NOPASS:{path to sftp-server} or prevalidate with ssh user@host sudo -v so that sudo has a updated timestamp for notty. In my case, my two commands were:

ssh login_user@host sudo -v
sshfs login_user@host:remote_path local_path -o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo -u as_user /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server"

Nfs – Central “/home” using SSHFS

You probably want to add the _netdev option to delay mounting until the network has been enabled:

sshfs#root@10.0.0.200:/home/ /home/ fuse transform_symlinks,allow_other,_netdev,nonempty,hard_remove 0 0

You can also put your script in /etc/network/if-up.d/ or the mount command in /etc/rc.local.

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Ssh – How to sudo over sshfs

Nfs – Central “/home” using SSHFS

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