Why doesn't SSHFS let me look into a mounted directory?

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Published on 2011-07-26T07:47:48Z Indexed on 2013/11/07 22:00 UTC
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I use SSHFS to mount a directory on a remote server. There is a user xxx on client and server. UID and GID are identical on both boxes.

I use

sshfs -o kernel_cache -o auto_cache -o reconnect -o compression=no \ 
      -o cache_timeout=600 -o ServerAliveInterval=15 \
      [email protected]:/mnt/content /home/xxx/path_to/content

to mount the directory on the remote server. When I log in as xxx on the client I have no problems. I can cd into /home/xxx/path_to/content.

But when I log in on the client as another user zzz and then

$ ls -l /home/xxx/path_to

I get this

d?????????   ? ?    ?        ?                ? content

and on

$ ls -l /home/xxx/path_to/content

I get

ls: cannot access content: Permission denied

When I do

$ ls -l /mnt

on the remote server I get

drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx xxx  4096 2011-07-25 12:51 content

What am I doing wrong? The permissions seem to be correct to me. Am I wrong?

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