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Q: Use SSHFS without admin rights

So let me explain what I'm trying to accomplish:

I want to be able to mount shares that I have set up on a local mac server. I'm choosing to use SSHFS because the standard afp and bonjour smb connections on mac have issues with a common Photoshop bug.

 

So I started simple:  Installed OSXFUSE and SSHFS. In terminal, I ran the following:


sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions kenny@10.0.1.2:/ ~/MountSSHFS


It requires admin access to execute and the account password for the ssh account. So far, it works well. Mounts with no errors and the bug I had in photoshop no longer occurs. Great.


Here's the catch: I am going to be installing this as a script on our users computers in the office (so they can avoid the photoshop bug as well). But they do not have admin rights for file server purposes.


How can I set up SSHFS for the others in the office where they do not need admin rights to use sshfs?


 

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 7, 2016 1:30 PM