From 0079575de85570e2c3e7f953f2b2ac8daa03befb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "max.mehl" <max.mehl@fsfe.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:44:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] if remote user is root, mount / instead of /home/max

---
 mnt-sftp.sh | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mnt-sftp.sh b/mnt-sftp.sh
index c2514c8..1dd6b64 100755
--- a/mnt-sftp.sh
+++ b/mnt-sftp.sh
@@ -128,9 +128,15 @@ function mount {
   fi
 
   # Command to mount actually
-  if [ "$MAN" = "0" ]; then
-    sshfs -C "$SSH": "$MOUNTDIR"/ -o follow_symlinks &
-  else
+  if [ "$MAN" = "0" ]; then   # used for hosts in ssh config
+    # if user of SSH Host is root, use the root directory as SSHPATH instead of $HOME
+    if [[ $(ssh -G "$SSH" | awk '/^user / { print $2 }') == "root" ]]; then
+      SSHPATH="/"
+    else
+      SSHPATH=
+    fi
+    sshfs -C "$SSH":"$SSHPATH" "$MOUNTDIR"/ -o follow_symlinks &
+  else  # used for manually entered or predefined hosts in app's config
     echo "$SSHPASS" | sshfs -C -o password_stdin -p "$SSHPORT" "$SSHUSER"@"$SSHHOST":"$SSHPATH" "$MOUNTDIR"/ -o follow_symlinks &
   fi