All I needed is to access my home directory hosted on a server quickly on a secure channel. FTP/Web based access were bit irritating as I could not read some of the IRC logs stored in unicode with ease. I quickly thought of installing and mounting the remote direct via sshfs (Secure Shell File System). Cool.. It just works.
To install it on my ubuntu box I used aptitude as follows
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sudo aptitude install sshfs
Once its done, all I need to do is to provide the remote hostname, directory to be mounted and the destination directory as the mount point. Check the syntax below.
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sshfs <username>@servername/ip:/home/<username> <destination>
This will prompt you for the SSH password. Once you’re authenticated, you will be able to access the files easily just like a normal folder. Its so convenient over FTP. Try it out today.
From man page: SSHFS (Secure Shell FileSystem) is a file system for Linux (and other operating systems with a FUSE implementation, such as Mac OS X or FreeBSD) capable of operating on files on a remote computer using just a secure shell login on the remote computer. On the local computer where the SSHFS is mounted, the implementation makes use of the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module. The practical effect of this is that the end user can seamlessly interact with remote files being securely served over SSH just as if they were local files on his/her computer. On the remote computer the SFTP subsystem of SSH is used.
Wow.. too good
I was using nautilus/dolphin/Konq file managers to access ssh.
Good one Shivu
There are some nice projects of using sqlite as filesystem and so on. Check them too, if you are interested.
Sure
it would be great if you can name few of them..
You may already know this, but if you create a public/private key, you can install the public key on the remote server then you will not have to login either.
This is great for script based needs when you want to mount the filesystem without intervention or storing passwords in files etc…
HTH
Al