Why doesn't SSHFS let me look into a mounted directory?

Solution 1:

I've found the answer myself. The problem was that I didn't use the option allow_other.

sshfs -o allow_other -o kernel_cache -o auto_cache -o reconnect \
  -o compression=no -o cache_timeout=600 -o ServerAliveInterval=15 \
  [email protected]:/mnt/content /home/xxx/path_to/content

To use this option you have to set the option user_allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf. When I did this I had another problem. The file /etc/fuse.conf haven't had read permissions for other users on my Ubuntu box. So I've changed that too and now I can access the directory with any user.