Re: [sshfs] writing with wrong permissions

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:28 PM, David Raymond <ra...@ke...> wrote:
>
> I have been experimenting with using sshfs as a replacement for nfs,
> given the lack of client authentication with the latter.  I start
> sshfs on the client as root with something like this in the fstab:
>
> root@gryphon:/home.gryphon /home.gryphon fuse.sshfs \
>       defaults,_netdev,allow_other,default_permissions 0 0
>
> The allow_other allows users other than root to access files in the
> mounted file system and the default_permissions enforces server
> permissions.  (UIDs and GIDs are the same on server and client.)
> This all works, but when I create a file as a non-root user,
> for example,
>
>       echo "some stuff" > junk
>
> "junk" ends up with root permissions.  Oops!
>
> Am I missing something?  Is this a bug or a feature?  Or am I
> trying to make sshfs do something it wasn't intended to do?

Yes, sshfs is not intended for this purpose.

You can create separate sshfs connections for each user (and run them
in separate namespaces for even better results).

Or you could try samba.

Thanks,
Miklos