Mount filesystem over sshfs at system startup / boot Mojave 10.14.6

Now, everything works when I have SIP disabled.

The sshfs connection to rsync.net is up, an is connected at boot / startup.

The setting I used for the mount point:

/mnt/sshfs

This was needed in order for automount and the mounting at boot to be able to work together.

New contents of the "/etc/auto_master"

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master       # Use directory service
/net               -hosts       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home              auto_home    -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers   -fstab
/-                 -static
/mnt/sshfs         auto_sshfs   -nobrowse,nosuid

In finder the disk, or the remote sshfs connection is called rsync_net, because of the

volname=rsync_net

setting for the sshfs connection.

So, now everything is good until I turn on the SIP, when this is turned on, the the fuse will no longer load at all.

output of

kextstat|grep fuse

So, with System integrity protection ( SIP ) Fuse will no longer load, for some reason.

When fuse is not loaded, of course I get some funky error messages :

kext load failed: -603946989
sysctl: unknown oid 'vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other'
kext load failed: -603946989
mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)

So , I go back to turning the SIP off for now.....

New "com.startup.plist" file

Now the file will load and run at boot.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.startup</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/bash</string>
        <string>/Library/Scripts/Startup/startup.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.startup.stderr</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.startup.stdout</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Now the LaunchDaemons startup file run... But, it is not time for celebration.

The remote server will still not mount at boot.

Error message from the file : "com.startup.stderr"

/mnt/rsync_net: Input/output error

Ok, so now I think there is some conflict with the mount points

I Specify the following mount points in the file "/Library/Scripts/Startup/startup.sh" :

Local mount point:

/mnt/rsync_net

But on this system, I have also configured Apple's automount.

So I suppose there is a conflict with the automount system

My list of mounts :

bash-5.0# compgen -c | grep ^mount
mount_sshfs
mount_hfs
mount_apfs
mount_udf
mount_cd9660
mount_sshfs
mount_exfat
mount_webdav
mount_msdos
mount_9p
mount_ntfs
mount_nfs
mount_ftp
mount
mount_afp
mount_smbfs
mount_cddafs
mount_fdesc
mount_acfs
mount_devfs
bash-5.0# 

Contents of the "/etc/auto_master"

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master       # Use directory service
/net               -hosts       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home              auto_home    -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers   -fstab
/-                 -static
/mnt/rsync_net     auto_sshfs   -nobrowse,nosuid

Contents of the "/etc/auto_sshfs"

/mnt/rsync_net -fstype=sshfs,port=22,local,volname=rsync_net,allow_other,auto_cache,defer_permissions XXXXX@prio.ch-s011.rsync.net:

I will give an update on the matter.

I have made a com.startup.plist file in LaunchDaemons.

The file is saved in LaunchDaemons, and it does not work as intended. ( Does not run )

Here is my com.startup.plist file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

 <dict>

  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>

  <dict>

   <key>PATH</key>

   <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:</string>

  </dict>

  <key>Label</key>

  <string>com.startup</string>

  <key>Program</key>

    <string>/usr/bin/env bash /Users/root/Scripts/startup.sh</string>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>

  <true/>

  <key>KeepAlive</key>

  <false/>

  <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>

  <true/>

  <key>StandardOutPath</key>

  <string>/tmp/startup.stdout</string>

  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>

  <string>/tmp/startup.stderr</string>

  <key>UserName</key>

  <string>admin</string>

  <key>GroupName</key>

  <string>admin</string>

  <key>InitGroups</key>

  <true/>

 </dict>

</plist>

The intention of the file is to start a script at boot / startup of laptop.

Script is named : startup.sh

contents of script :

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#Load modules for Fuse

/Library/Filesystems/osxfuse.fs/Contents/Resources/load_osxfuse

/usr/sbin/sysctl -w vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other=1

#Connect to rsync_net

/usr/local/bin/sshfs XXXX@prio.ch-s011.rsync.net: /mnt/sshfs -oauto_cache,reconnect,local,volname=rsync_net,allow_other,defer_permissions

Ok, so the script will not run at startup, because for some reason the com.startup.plist will not run at boot.

Regardless, I am able to run the script by terminal, but ONLY if I give this command in terminal :

Tormods-MacBook-Pro:Scripts tormod$ sudo bash startup.sh

Password:

vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other: 1 -> 1

Tormods-MacBook-Pro:Scripts tormod$ 

It is impossible to run the script by typing name of script, and enter.

So, some things is working and some things is not working.......

Any help appreciated !

Thanks !

I looked in the launchd tutorial.

Here is the error codes I get when I try to run :

Tormods-MacBook-Pro:LaunchDaemons tormod$ launchctl load com.startup.plist

Error codes from Console.app :

Sep  5 21:08:08 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.domain.501.100009.Aqua): com.startup (lint): UserName is not supported for non-System services.
Sep  5 21:08:08 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.domain.501.100009.Aqua): com.startup (lint): GroupName is not supported for non-System services.
Sep  5 21:08:08 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.startup[680]): Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /usr/bin/env bash /Users/root/Scripts/startup.sh
Sep  5 21:08:08 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.startup[680]): Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
Sep  5 21:08:08 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.startup[680]): Service exited with abnormal code: 78

Thanks !

I think the problem is maybe in the chmod properties of directories, files or commands.

I belive the script will run as root user. So, what ownership / chmod should the directories where the script is located have ?

What ownership / chmod should the the script file have ?

I see there are several attributes for the osxfuse.

I find the different attributes here :

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/Mount-options

Now, I run : allow_other

The correct way is maybe : allow_root ?

When I run my script from command line manually, I get this error :

bash-5.0# startup.sh
bash: startup.sh: command not found
bash-5.0# bash startup.sh
vfs.generic.osxfuse.tunables.allow_other: 0 -> 1
bash-5.0# 

Why do I get "command not found" If I enter the name of script, and then press "ENTER" ?

When the script startup.sh is run, there is no internet connection on the macbook.

Is there a way to delay the

#Connect to rsync_net

For x number of minutes or until the internet connection is up ?

Update :

Now, when I run this command :

bash-5.0# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.plist

I get these error codes in system.log :

Sep 23 01:36:44 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.startup[1756]): Service could not initialize: 18G6020: xpcproxy + 11299 [1534][EF0898CB-4A82-3F6F-A7E6-C3F025B1A096]: 0x2
Sep 23 01:36:44 Tormods-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.startup[1756]): Service exited with abnormal code: 78

I started my mac from macOS Recovery.

Command (⌘)-R

"Reinstall the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac."

Reinstalled macOS.

After the reinstall of macOS I was able to enable SIP, and then FUSE worked as expected.

I did not loose any data, as a result of the reinstall.

Fuse and sshfs now works, with SIP enabled.

Automount when a specific user is logged on is also acceptable.