"Too many levels of symbolic links" error when using systemd

I have following line in /etc/fstab:

[email protected]:/home/sami /mnt/node fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,users,idmap=user,IdentityFile=/home/sami/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other,reconnect 0  0

If I enable systemd automounting, by running:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start mnt-node.automount

ls /mnt/node gives:

ls: cannot access '/mnt/node/': Too many levels of symbolic links

However, the mount works just fine if I instead mount the drive with command:

mount /mnt/node

What I am doing wrong with systemd? I am using Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks

Solution 1:

The automount is done by root user. /home/root/.ssh/known_hosts needs to have target machine id. Otherwise the mount will fail and give these error messages.