sshfs has fubared mount

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

Greetings all;

I have sshfs setup so I can move files around between this box and 4 
others, 3 of which are now running buster.  Works only for the user, me.

Same install medium, a usb key, has installed buster to a 5th machine, 
which is identical to two of the other 4.

But the mount permissions are inverted, only root can mount this 5th 
machine.  ssh -Y aliasname works normally, and I am logged into this 5th 
machine fron a konsole as me, user 1000.

Only I can execute these 4 lines of a script in my bin directory
#!/bin/bash
sshfs gene@sixty40.coyote.den:/ /sshnet/sixty40
sshfs gene@lathe:/              /sshnet/lathe
sshfs gene@GO704:/              /sshnet/GO704
sshfs pi@rpi4:/			/sshnet/rpi4

but only root can execute this last line

sshfs gene@Hardinge1:/		/sshnet/Hardinge1

generating this error when I run this script as me.
gene@coyote:~$ bin/mount-machines
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option

The above mounts have already been done, and the onwership and perms 
of /sshnet/Hardinge1 are identical to the other 4 above

fusermount: user has no write access to mountpoint /sshnet/Hardinge1
which is
ls -la /sshnet/ (on this machine)
total 84
drwxr-xr-x  9 gene gene  4096 Feb  8 10:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root  4096 Dec 12 03:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4096 Feb  4 15:59 GO704
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb  8 10:10 Hardinge1
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4096 Feb  3 14:16 lathe
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Apr 25  2019 redpitaya
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4096 Feb  1 04:46 rpi4
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4096 Feb  4 15:43 sixty40
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 May  2  2019 vna

How do I fix this? I do not want a root perms holder to have access.
Anything I need to do to any of thse machines that needs root, can be 
done with sudo from a normal login as the first user.

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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