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| SSHFS | |
|---|---|
 Mounting an SSHFS network, the sign-on displays the desktop icon illustrated | |
| Developers | Nikolaus Rath, Miklos Szeredi[1] |
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | UNIX-like |
| Type | Remote access |
| Website | https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs |
| Repository | |
SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) is afilesystem client tomount and interact withdirectories andfiles located on a remoteserver orworkstation over a normal ssh connection.[3] The client interacts with the remote file system via theSSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP),[4] anetwork protocol providingfile access,file transfer, andfile management functionality over any reliabledata stream that was designed as an extension of theSecure Shell protocol (SSH) version 2.0.
The current implementation of SSHFS usingFUSE is arewrite of an earlier version. The rewrite was done byMiklos Szeredi, who also wrote FUSE.[5]
SFTP provides secure file transfer from a remote file system. While SFTP clients can transfer files and directories, they cannot mount the server's file system into the local directory tree. Using SSHFS, a remote file system may be treated in the same way as other volumes (such as hard drives or removable media).[6]
Using theUnix commandls with sshfs will sometimes not list the owner of a file correctly, although it is possible to map them manually.[7][8]
For distributed remote file systems with multiple users, protocols such asApple Filing Protocol,Network File System andServer Message Block are more often used. SSHFS is an alternative to those protocols only in situations where users are confident that files and directories will not be targeted for writing by another user, at the same time.[citation needed]
The advantage of SSHFS when compared to other network file system protocols is that, given that a user already has SSH access to a host, it does not require any additional configuration work, or the opening of additional entry ports in afirewall.[5]
