Re: Symlinks not accessible when mounting with sshfs

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
> I've the following issue with sshfs while it doesn't happen when I login
> using ssh:
> 
> root@itek:~# sshfs rpi:/ /media/raspberrypi
> root@itek:~# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ls -l -a -h
> /media/raspberrypi/etc/alternatives/rsh
> ls: cannot read symbolic link '/media/raspberrypi/etc/alternatives/rsh':
> Operation not permitted

Without the option "follow_symlinks" isn't it the case that sshfs can't
follow symlinks at all?

Also note that without the option "transform_symlinks", symlinks to
absolute paths (such as all the ones in /etc/alternatives/) will be
pointing to paths on your source system, not the  paths they would
ordinarily point to on the remote system.

Thanks,
Andy