How do I make sshfs work in Debian? (I get /dev/fuse: Permission denied )

Solution 1:

For some reason, Debian configures FUSE to require users to be in the fuse group.

Run gpasswd -a username fuse as root, then log out and log in again. (Important step.)

Solution 2:

There is a bug report indicating that Debian Wheezy (which seems to have the version 2.9.0-2 of the fuse package, the bug is reported fixed in 2.9.0-3) may set wrong permissions for /dev/fuse (crw------T 1 root root in my case).

As stated around the comments of the earlier posts, this can be fixed by running the following commands as root:

chmod g+rw /dev/fuse
chgrp fuse /dev/fuse

Also remember to add your user to the fuse group with, e.g., gpasswd -a username fuse.

Solution 3:

Changing permissions ('sudo chmod g+rw /dev/fuse', the above omits the 'r') did work for me (in addition of course to adding my user to the fuse group).

Solution 4:

I ran into the same /dev/fuse permission denied problem (unrelated the sshfs). In my case the fuse package was not installed. The package provides all the basic necessities like the mount tools, sysfs control, a new "fuse" group, and inode permission (managed by udev).

# apt-get install fuse
# usermod -a -G fuse <username>
# modprobe fuse

Last command loads the kernel module, and the kernel tells udev to set the permissions.