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     SSHFS(4)                                                 SSHFS(4)

     NAME
          sshfs - secure file transfer protocol client

     SYNOPSIS
          sshfs [ -abdRUGM ] [ -s service ] [ -m mtpt ] [ -r root ] [
          -u uidfile ] [ -g gidfile ]

               [ -- ssh-options ] [user@]host | -c cmdline | -p

     DESCRIPTION
          Sshfs makes the file system on a remote host accessible
          through the secure file transfer protocol (SFTP).  By
          default sshfs launches ssh(1) to connect to host and log in
          as user. If -c is specified, sshfs will instead launch the
          command specified by cmdline and if -p is specified, sshfs
          communicates with an SFTP server via stdin and stdout.

          Unless -M is specified, sshfs will mount itself at the
          mountpoint specified by mtpt, or at /n/ssh if -m is not
          specified.  The default mount options are equivalent to
          calling mount (see bind(1)) with -c.  -a and -b have the
          same function as they do with mount.

          If -s is specified, it will post itself in srv(3) with ser-
          vice name service. If the service file is mounted, the
          attach name (the third argument to mount(1)) can be used to
          specify which directory on the remote host will be mounted.

          By default, relative paths are assumed relative to the
          user's home directory.  The -r option can be used to specify
          an alternative base for relative paths.  The initial mount
          at -m also uses this directory.  If an attach name starts
          with ~, the user's home directory is substituted for ~.

          Since the only supported version 3 of the SFTP protocol has
          no way to look up numeric user and group IDs, sshfs will
          read the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the remote host
          to create a lookup table for them.  The location of these
          files can be changed with -u and -g, whereas -U and -G will
          inhibit reading them entirely.  If these files cannot be
          accessed for any reason, numeric IDs simply remain untrans-
          lated.

          Further options:

          -R   Read access only.

          -d   Enable debugging output.

     SOURCE

     SSHFS(4)                                                 SSHFS(4)

          /sys/src/cmd/sshfs.c

     BUGS
          Currently only version 3 of the SFTP protocol is supported
          (which is the most common version in use and the latest sup-
          ported by openssh).  Unfortunately there are problems with
          the version 3 specification and the code relies on openssh-
          specific behaviour in some corner cases.  Version 4 and
          later also handle uid/gid translation at the server end
          which would remove the ugly dependence on reading remote
          configuration files.

          Some 9P operations that should be atomic are not atomic
          because they do not map 1:1 to SFTP operations.  In particu-
          lar there is no guarantee that a failed wstat (see stat(5))
          did not change some of the fields.

          The code is naive about links and assumes files with dis-
          tinct names to be distinct, assigning them different QIDs.

          File names with null bytes in them will confuse sshfs. Sshfs
          should probably escape them, as well as control characters
          that might confuse other software.

     HISTORY
          Sshfs first appeared in 9front (Apr, 2017).

     SEE ALSO
          ssh(1)