Automounting via SSHFS fails with error "Operation Not Permitted"

[Jacob Cross]

Hi all,

I'm trying to automount a share from my FreeNAS system using sshfs.  I am on El Capitan 10.11.6 with the latest osxfuse and sshfs downloads.

Running this command from Terminal works perfectly:
sshfs user@server:/mnt/main_pool/Media    /mnt/nas -p 22 -oreconnect -oauto_cache -ofollow_symlinks -oallow_other -ouid=501 -ogid=20 -ovolname="Media"

However, when I translate that to an automount entry, the mount fails.  Here's my automount file, called auto_nas:
Media -fstype=sshfs,port=22,reconnect,auto_cache,uid=501,gid=20,follow_symlinks,allow_other,IdentityFile=/path/to/private_key,volname="Media"     user@server:/mnt/main_pool/Media

When automount runs (either automatically or via sudo automount -vc) , the mount does not appear, and I see the following message in the console:
automountd[1476]: mount of /mnt/nas/Media failed: Operation not permitted

I've done a bit of Googling but haven't been able to determine what exactly is failing and why.  It's especially vexing since the sshfs command works great but what I think should be the equivalent automount entry fails.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks!

[Sam Moffatt]

I don’t have an answer for you but have you tried this post that seems to have a similar problem and someone posted a solution?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/159316/how-to-get-automount-and-sshfs-osxfuse-working-with-yosemite

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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[Jacob Cross]

Thank you Sam. I had used parts of that post but at your recommendation I took a closer look.

I'm unable to complete this step (which is meant to be incorporated into a launch service):

/bin/bash -c "/Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/load_osxfusefs; /usr/sbin/sysctl -w osxfuse.tunables.allow_other=1"

I don't have a file /Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/load_osxfusefs on my system.  The closest I have is /Library/Filesystems/osxfuse.fs/Contents/Resources/load_osxfuse.

So, I tried the commands with that alternative path, but receive the error sysctl: unknown oid 'osxfuse.tunables.allow_other'.

I'm able to run this command successfully (which includes -oallow_other):



sshfs user@server:/mnt/main_pool/Media    /mnt/nas -p 22 -oreconnect -oauto_cache -ofollow_symlinks -oallow_other -ouid=501 -ogid=20 -ovolname="Media"




So perhaps allow_other is already enabled?  Not sure how to proceed.

Thanks again for your help.
Jake


Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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