I got permission denied forbidden errot. To resolve this I have it the necessary permission

#sshfs -o allow_other,uid=500;gid=500 user@server.com:/home/abcd/public_html/moodle /var/www/html/moodle_server

Bingo It lets me get in. Now only one thing remains. I need to setup the mysql user and password same as on the server locally. Ka Ching!!! There you go debugging your remote file system php files right from your desktop. No upload download permision abcd stuff

If you want to auto mount the system when you access it. install a key pair using ssh-keygen. or use autofs for automounting

Want to be able to use the local rights system on that folder? (just if you dont want to go on but want to be able to mount a remote filesystem and have the
local rights translated to it.)

For default permissions

#sshfs -o allow_other, default_permissions user@server.com:/home/abcd/public_html/moodle /var/www/html/moodle_server

As i want the remote directory mount automaticly (with autofs described later on)
i need a passwordless ssh login. This can be done with help of generating public keys.
A public key for the local system is generated with the command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

(hit enter so its saved in your home directory under .ssh/id_rsa

(hit enter for no passphrase)

you have now a .ssh directory with two files
id_rsa and id_rsa.pub

id_rsa is your private key ! protect it well let only YOU have rights on it (default) as if this gets compromised
anyone can gain access to your remote host

id_rsa.pub is the public key it is readable by others and this is what you have to send to the remote host so it can have it in its authorized_keys file

Copy now the public key to the remote machine

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.com:~/.

logon with an ssh client to the remote machine the id_rsa.pub file content must be added to the authorized_keys file in the .ssh directory of the homedir of the user you want to connect as.

In this example the remote users home directory

ssh user@server.com
cat ~/id_*.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

A alternative simpler way to get your public key in the authorized_keys file of your remote host is with ssh-copy-id
from your local machine type

 ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.com

this does the whole process of copying your public key to the remote machnes users homedir in .ssh in authorized_keys
and sets the rights oke

As later on the mount is done by the local root user you need the public key of root too.

so give command

sudo gnome-terminal

to open a command terminal as user root and repeat the above procedure.

after this the file authorized_keys at the remote station has both the public key of the local user and the local root so it works in test and in production later when root does the mounwork….

Set the right rights for the file authorized_keys or the ssh deamon ( in my case dropbear) might not want to process the authorize_keys file

ssh remoteuser@remote.machine.address
chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

logout from the remote machine and test.

ssh user@server.com

You should now be able to login without giving a password.

If it does not work debug with ssh -v option .

(same for the sudo gnome-terminal )

If it works you can see if the mount works passwordless too

sudo sshfs user@server:/Directory/to/mount /var/www/html/moodle_server

So ! thats done!!! you can now mount the remote filesystem without using a password.

Cheers!!

sshfs -o allow_other,uid=500,gid=500

academy@uspja.com:/home/academy/public_html /var/www/html/uspja_academy_server/

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