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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. Yet another option by BlueEar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This seems to be beta quality code. Thus you might want to try Secure NFS via SSH Tunnel, which provides, accoding to the author Secure NFS (SNFS) via SSH2 tunneling of UDP datagrams, as suggested in the SSH FAQ.

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  2. Don't you remember hacking a school lab? by iamacat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The authors might not have admin access to the server to configure secure NFS. Or for that matter an installed compiler to install samba and tunnel it over ssh. Just shell access and instructions on using pine. And a sysadmin who will need a shot of brandy after hearing about students/employees running a remote filesystem. He might even be right, considering how NFS lets clients pick a userid to access files or uses inode numbers as handles.

    There are a lot of projects like this. Linux used to have term and later a user-level PPP daemon to forward socket calls over a serial line, when the admin could have easily installed the real thing. At one point I had to write a rather complicated tool to forward incoming requests from the internet to a host inside an http-only firewall because that was the only way to test it with a client running on a cell phone.

    Now if someone wrote a daemon to run PPP (or PPPOE) over an HTTP proxy, we could all just use it and stop reinventing the wheel.