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I'm running sshfs with the following:

sshfs [email protected]:/var/www/myapp /home/basicuser/code -o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server"

I have also created RSA keys so I can log in via ssh without password prompt (I tested this and it works).

I have also added the user to the sudoers file to run the sftp-server without a password:

basicuser  ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD:  /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

What could be causing this error? How do I figure that out?

Edit

I am trying to mount a folder on the local computer from the remote server. On the remote server, only root has read/write permissions to that folder.

Remote folder: /var/www/myapp (is root only read/write)

Don Rhummy
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You get a lot more information about the failure if you run sshfs as:

sshfs -odebug,sshfs_debug,loglevel=debug user@host ...

Usually this will give you something a lot more helpful to debug the problem.

Alex Hofsteede
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It was requiring tty (this basically means something cannot be run in the background, but needs an active terminal window to run). So I added the following to /etc/sudoers (edited by doing visudo):

Defaults:basicuser !requiretty

I want it to not require tty only for that one command, but it may not be possible to do that: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/80159

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Don Rhummy
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Thanks, @Alex Hofsteede for the debugging info.
my problem was that I was using a custom cipher, the Blowfish cipher.
command-line line 0: Bad SSH2 cipher spec 'blowfish-cbc'.
I removed the custom cipher and it worked.

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    why are you posting this as an answer? this should be a comment on his answer – Don Rhummy Jan 14 '18 at 08:01
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    It is an answer to remote host disconnected question. `What could be causing this error? How do I figure that out?` It just didn't happen to be the answer the OP was looking for. However i had the same question and this was my answer. – codenamejames Jan 16 '18 at 15:07
  • @codenamejames The process to determine your specific issue was the answer. Your *comment* is orphaned and forces others to backtrack your "answer" to the one that will actually help the other 90% of users without a broken Blowfish cipher. – Abandoned Cart Dec 23 '19 at 14:12