Can only run sshfs as root

Is there anything special I need to do to run sshfs as a regular user? I saw another thread here from a while back that says I need vfs.usermount set to 1, which I do, but still no luck. It works fine when run as root but otherwise I get "operation not permitted."

I can make this work by adding setuid permissions to /sbin/mount_fusefs. But is that the only way?

thanks!
 
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I have never used sshfs on FreeBSD but on OpenBSD user mount option was removed about a year ago. I don't recall the reason but you can probably find out on tech@openbsd. You have to be root to mount the file system.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149805347118472&w=2

Have you read man pages for sshfs for your version of FreeBSD. I would not rely on any Internet archive and I would be very worried about getting outdated information even from the official FreeBSD handbook. That thing is really hit and miss and it is not properly updated.
 
I saw another thread here from a while back that says I need vfs.usermount set to 1, which I do, but still no luck.
This setting allows a user to mount filesystems. But there's another requirement, the user must also be the owner of the mountpoint.
 
To me it works, I spent a lot of time to have it working well, it is very important IMO.
The following procedure is valid for FreeBSD-11.1.

Here is what is written into my notes: ( my user in FreeBSD is "p")
Code:
root@fbs> pkg install fusefs-sshfs-3.3.0
root@fbs> sysctl vfs.usermount=1
root@fbs> pw groupmod operator -m p

Then I mount a handfull of remote directories as user "p"
in FreeBSD, like in the next step. In this case I mount an OSX directory
/Users/Nicola/Downloads owned by "nicola" there, into the local dir /home/p/osx
owned by "p" in FreeBSD.
Code:
p@fbs> OPT='-o idmap=user -o ServerAliveInterval=15 -o reconnect'
p@fbs> sshfs $OPT nicola@172.16.0.1:/Users/Nicola/Downloads /home/p/osx

CAVEAT. Be carefull, the above is ok for testing, but use fusefs-sshfs from ports to have release >= 3.3.1, there is an ugly bug in the package version 3.3.0. I have opened a thread about this a short time ago;)
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...sk-from-gui-gives-disk-full.64354/post-374330
 
You mistook something or the man page is wrong.
It think the first option is far more probable.

Tha man page for sshfs states
Code:
It is recommended to run SSHFS as regular user (not as root).  For this
to work the mountpoint must be owned by the user.

1] (root) I made a user "test"
2] (root) I added user "test" to group "operator"
3] I logged in as user "test"
3.1] I checked to be in group "operator" groups
3.2] I checked to be into "test" home directory
4] I made a directory "mnt" in user "test" home
5] Then I did
Code:
test@localhost> sshfs  foo@bar.baz:/home/foo ~/mnt/
=> It works

I got the same error you are talking about in two cases:
1] I don't add user "test" to group "operator"
2] I don't monut sshfs to a directory owned by "test"

Hope you can make it, sshfs for me it is fundamental so I undestand your position.
 
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