On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > I used to use NFS back in 2000 - back when we still thought unsecured > local > > services were okay. And I loved it - it was slow, but very useful. So > I'd > > like to start using it again, but I want it secured. ... > > You might want to look at sshfs instead. This is a nifty thing that > uses SSH, SFTP, and FUSE to let you mount storage from a remote box > that you have SSH access to. Linux even lets non-root users do this in > a way that makes the mount not exist for any other user. And since any > user can look at the man page and just do it, there's far less hassle > for the sysadmin to set up. And you don't have to open any new holes > besides the already-well-tested SSH daemon. I've used sshfs for a few years, and it's wonderful -- I can edit (what appears to be) locally, and Everything Just Works. Use sshfs user@domain:/path/to/Directory local_mountpoint to connect, and fusermount -u local_mountpoint to disconnect. -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com Certified Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society / www.barbershop.org
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