• In this tutorial, you will learn how to mount a remote directory in a secure way using the SSHFS between two Linux machines (client and server).
  • This guide will get you started with SSHFS on your Linode. SSHFS can eliminate the need to use FTP/SFTP to transfer files to and from a remote server.
  • Mounting SSHFS Directories#. Now that SSHFS is installed, you can use the mount command to access remote directories over SSH via SSHFS.
  • sshfs user@host:/home/user /media/sshfs/somehost -o nodev,nosuid,noexec,idmap=user,ro,reconnect fusermount3 -u...
  • Most SSH servers support and enable this SFTP access by default, so SSHFS is very simple to use - there's nothing to do on the server-side.
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  • Step 3 — Permanently Mounting the Remote Filesystem. As with other types of disk and network mounts, you can configure a permanent mount using SSHFS.
  • All the members of the team (2 in our example) will mount through SSHFS the same directory from a central server, as shown in the following diagram
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  • The Secure SHell FileSystem or SSHFS establishes a connection using SFTP (Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol) to operate on files in a remote filesystem.
  • Default user names and options can be predefined on a host-by-host basis in ~/.ssh/config to simplify the sshfs usage.