You are right. My publickey auth had stopped working due to a change
elsewhere and i failed to notice. When I fixed it, I found that SSHFS
does use publickey auth if available.

On Oct 18, 8:05 pm, "Sam Moffatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SSHFS appears to respect it on my system. If I have an agent available
> for it, the tool will use my key from that or it will request the
> password for my key. If you want to automate it you can make a key
> without a password and use this to login for you automatically. Of
> course you don't mention what user account you are running the command
> under - if you aren't running it under your user account then you are
> likely to have issues with the keys not being looked for or used - the
> relevant keys would have to be located in that user's ssh directory.
>
> Sam
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:25 AM, gvt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I want to avoid the prompt for password that SSHFS gives upon
> > connecting to a remote volume.
>
> > I do have key-based auth working for the host and credentials that I
> > connect with, but SSHFS does not seem to respect this.
>
> > Passing the password as an argument would be fine but I don't see any
> > options for this. (I also don't see any options related to key-based
> > auth.)
>
> > Do either of these exist? My goal is to mount and unmount volumes in
> > an automated way, i.e. without a human driving.
>
> > Thanks
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