# Automounting sshfs

DevFeed: [Automounting sshfs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/automounting-sshfs-21885.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.nelhage.com/2008/03/automounting-sshfs/>)

Author: Nelson Elhage

Published: 2008-03-23T18:54:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Nelson Elhage](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nelson-elhage.md>)

Topics: [remote access](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/remote-access.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [config](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/config.md>), [filesystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filesystem.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [remote](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote.md>), [remote-access](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote-access.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how sshfs provides lightweight access to a remote filesystem and describes using SSH keepalives and afuse to improve reconnection and automounting. It also mentions Kerberos and public-key authentication for passwordless access, with a limitation for multi-user machines.

## Source excerpt

For some time now, many of us around MIT have noticed just how awesome sshfs is. It gives a totally lightweight way to access the remote filesystem of any machine you have ssh to, without requiring any extra setup on the host. I've been running for at least a year now with my /data RAID on my server sshfs-mounted on my laptop, and it works totally great. Recently, I came across two awesome things that make sshfs even neater.