{"id":5682,"date":"2015-05-03T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hbyconsultancy.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2015-05-03T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:42:31","slug":"sshfs-mount-remote-directories-locally-with-ssh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/2015\/05\/sshfs-mount-remote-directories-locally-with-ssh.html","title":{"rendered":"SSHFS Mount remote directories locally with SSH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s annoying to work from your Desktop on remote files using command line only, while you can access them easily using GUI. The problem occur if you are editing text files that have non standard encoding, and in this case using command line might broke your encoding or not allow you to see text correctly. So instead of finding a way to display it in command line, I prefer using other editors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So to mount your remote directory using SSH you will need to have sshfs, I am using here Ubuntu trusty 14.04.2 :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true \">sudo apt-get install sshfs<\/pre>\n<p>Load the kernel module :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true \">sudo modprobe fuse<\/pre>\n<p>Then set the permissions required, replace &#8220;<em>username&#8221;<\/em> with your current user name :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true \">sudo adduser username fuse\n\nsudo chown root:fuse \/dev\/fuse<\/pre>\n<p>Then finally you can mount it locally :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true\">mkdir ~\/remote10\n\nsshfs remoteuser@10.10.xx.xx:\/var\/www\/html\/project10 ~\/remote10<\/pre>\n<p>You might see your remote directory mounted below devices :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wordpress-948180-3301344.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sshfs.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5082\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wordpress-948180-3301344.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sshfs.png?resize=223%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sshfs\" width=\"223\" height=\"488\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now when you finish you can unmount it using :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true \">fusermount -u  ~\/remote10<\/pre>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s annoying to work from your Desktop on remote files using command line only, while you can access them easily using GUI. The problem occur if you are editing text files that have non standard encoding, and in this case using command line might broke your encoding or not allow you to see text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[226,227],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbyconsultancy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}