I am using sshfs to mount a folder with some python projects over ssh to my ~/ directory. $ mkdir -p ~/mount/my-projects $ sshfs user@example.com:/home/user/my-projects ~/mount/my-projects I can perform most commands as could be expected: $ ls ~/mount/my-projects some-python-project But I if I try to do anything with sudo, it fails with permission denied: $ sudo ls ~/mount/my-projects ls: cannot a