From 7b0ac497a4bd73b40b83d33490b9646eadfbc265 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pjotr Prins
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:10:39 +0100
Subject: On sshfs drops

---
 topics/systems/backup-drops.gmi | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/topics/systems/backup-drops.gmi b/topics/systems/backup-drops.gmi
index a4677f7..564c139 100644
--- a/topics/systems/backup-drops.gmi
+++ b/topics/systems/backup-drops.gmi
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Next
 ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_backup bacchus@dropserver
 ```
 
-should give a Broken pipe(!) or it says `This service allows sftp connections only`.
+should give a Broken pipe(!) or -- more recently -- it says `This service allows sftp connections only`.
 When running sshd with a verbose switch you may see something like
 
 fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component "/export/backup/"
@@ -121,6 +121,18 @@ chown bacchus.bacchus backup/bacchus/drop/
 chmod 0700 backup/bacchus/drop/
 ```
 
+Another error may be:
+
+```
+fusermount3: mount failed: Operation not permitted
+```
+
+This means you need to set the suid on the fusermount3 command. Bit nasty in Guix.
+
+```
+chmod 4755 /usr/bin/fusermount
+```
+
 If auth.log says error: /dev/pts/11: No such file or directory on ssh, or received disconnect (...) disconnected by user we are good to go!
 
 Note: at this stage it may pay to track the system log with
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