Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH

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."

Comments

Re:what's the point?

[kcurrie]

What are you talking about? This makes a remote filesystem appear local, and all local commands work accordingly (i.e. edit a file, play an mp3, etc). With sftp you'd have to sftp a file down to do an operation on it, and then sftp it back up again afterwards, etc/

I've used lufs with the sshfs and it works great, I've even done compiles on a remote filesystem this way-- you simply cannot do that using just sftp/scp.