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 You should be able to login without requiring your password You should be able to login without requiring your password
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 ===== Install SSHFS ===== ===== Install SSHFS =====
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 A mount point is a directory on your system where the content in a remote directory appears on your workstation. The standard location for mount points on linux and unix systems us `/mnt`. A mount point is a directory on your system where the content in a remote directory appears on your workstation. The standard location for mount points on linux and unix systems us `/mnt`.
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 +IMPORTANT: To ensure that mount points continue to work and are still available (not clobbered) when LDAP mounts users home directories to `/​home/​username` we will avoid mounting file systems to users current home directories and use the standard convention of mounting file systems to the designated temporary mount point `/mnt` as described in the [[https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard]] and illustrated in the examples below:
  
 Syntax Syntax
  
-  ​/​mnt/<​user name>/< ​server ​>-< directory >+(using all lower case) 
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 +  ​/​mnt/<​user name>/< ​short host name >-< directory >
  
 ==== Mount Point Examples ==== ==== Mount Point Examples ====
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   /​mnt/​asmith/​storage-2-datasets   /​mnt/​asmith/​storage-2-datasets
  
-==== Optional Mount Points ​====+===== /​etc/​fuse.conf ​===== 
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 +Ensure that `user_allow_other` is in /​etc/​fuse.conf and that it is uncommented so that users are able to mount file systems. (Our current LDAP configuration requires this as well). 
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 +  ###############################################################################​ 
 +  # Ansible managed: last modified on 2016-04-05 13:09:11 by ace-ws-32 
 +  # /​etc/​fuse.conf 
 +  # root:fuse 644 
 +  # 
 +  # Allow fuse to use allow_othe and allow_root options - CentOS and Ubuntu 
 +  # 
 +  # 0.1 2016-03-31 - ppatterson - Initial file 
 +  ###############################################################################​ 
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 +  user_allow_other
  
-  /​mnt/​asmith/​storage-2-taskforce-2016 
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 2. Connect it to the data directory on ace-storage-2 2. Connect it to the data directory on ace-storage-2
  
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