I ran across this error while trying to mount a remote file system to my local host using SSHFS.
The command I was using was in the form of:
sshfs root@remote:/path/to/dir ./localDir
- I am logged into the local system as root
- I have a valid SSH key to the remote… I can
ssh root@remote
and get a prompt - I tried setting permissions to both the source and destination 777 just for testing – same error
- I found lots of similar error messages via search engines, but none of the "bad mount point" results also included "Permission denied." I think this is a distinct issue.
Best Answer
The destination (./local) directory was also a fuse mounted directory.
I didn't intend to mount inside a fuse mount, but it appears that if you do, you get a "permission denied" message instead of a more appropriate message.