Secure Shell Filesystem

SSHFS is shipped by all major Linux distributions and has been in production use across a wide range of systems for many years. However, at present SSHFS does not have any active, regular contributors, and there are a number of known issues (see the bugtracker). The current maintainer continues to apply pull requests and makes regular releases, but unfortunately has no capacity to do any development beyond addressing high-impact issues. When reporting bugs, please understand that unless you are including a pull request or are reporting a critical issue, you will probably not get a response. Note that this is insecure as connection will happen without encryption. Only use this on localhost or trusted networks. This option is sometimes used by other projects to mount folders inside VMs. First, download the latest SSHFS release from You also need libfuse 3.1.0 or newer (or a similar library that provides a libfuse3 compatible interface for your operating system). Finally, you need the Glib library with development headers (which should be available from your operating system's package manager). To build and install, we recommend to use Meson (version 0.38 or newer) and Ninja. After extracting the sshfs tarball, create a (temporary) build directory and run Meson: Normally, the default build options will work fine. If you nevertheless want to adjust them, you can do so with the mesonconf command: To build, test and install SSHFS, you then use Ninja (running the tests requires the py.test Python module):