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Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH

Posted by michael on from the just-because-you-can dept.

eval writes "Ever wanted secure access to your files at work or school, but didn't have the necessary permissions or were thwarted by a firewall that allowed ssh access only? The SHFS kernel module allows you to mount directories from machines to which you have shell access. File operations are executed as shell commands on the server via SSH (or rsh). Caching keeps it reasonably fast, and remote commands are optimized based on the server's OS."

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  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now my web hosting company will probably take away ssh access. Thanks Linux hackers!

  2. What's with the... by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..margerine box at the bottom? Is it what the programmers ate during the creation of shfs? Like that apocryphal Java-drinking sessions at Sun? Does margerine have magical caffiene-like properties too?

    --
    "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
  3. Re:My beef with firewalls.. by Ian+the+Terrible · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that's pretty stupid.

    It's a bitch to get SMTP to work over 23, too.

  4. Shell over SMTP by NoOneInParticular · · Score: 5, Funny
    Big Deal! Back in my day, we ran a filesystem over smtp: sent your commands per email, have it executed remotely, and send the results back to the sender. Imagine:

    To: user+bash@host.com

    ls /usr/bin

    And get the result back by email. The tricky part was to do (insecure) copy: cat piped to uuncode etc.

    To paraphrase: it's not really the easiest thing to automate but it sure worked for day-to-day computing