MacOS – bindfs, osfuse, sshfs & macOS Sierra

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I use bindfs with osxfuse and sshfs to mount specific folders (chroot) to allow sftp access for external users (macOS Sierra 10.12).

Binding a readOnly folder for the user "sftpusr" is done with

bindfs -r -u sftpusr /volume/folder /chroot/folder

The folder is correctly bound, I can login using sftp and listing the folder once only – then folders and files disappear, I need to mount and bind again.

There is no difference in using either homebrew to install osfuse, sshfs, bindfs or making my "own" binaries.

I had this feature running for years (Mavericks, Yosemite). Is this an incompatibility with macOS Sierra?

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I had no luck getting bindfs and osfuse up and running with macOS Sierra. So I configured a virtual machine instead on top of CentOS 7, with everything running now.

https://bernhard.hensler.net/sftp-yosemite-server/

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