08-22-2008, 08:31 AM
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 Re: Obsoleteness of X concept
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> I guess the tunneling part is the easy part, but one would probably
>> have to mount the stick in some way on the remote system, and it
>> should only be accessible by the user. If we want near-universal
>> support (i.e., many platforms) for that, that's quite a lot of work.
>> In Linux, one can probably implement it through FUSE.
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>Come to think of it, now that your bring up FUSE, it would probably be
>pretty straightforward to do it with sshfs.
Yes. I see the following problems:
1) One needs FUSE and sshfs on the remote machine. But something like
that is unavoidable, as mentioned above.
2) If I understand it correctly, sshfs needs an sshd on a machine
where the USB stick is mounted. I don't have sshd on my home machine,
and I don't want it (nobody has to log into there). I would prefer if
I could set up an ssh tunnel from my home machine to the remote
machine, and if a version of sshfs could work through that.
3) As a variation of the above, even if the machine I work from has an
sshd, I usually cannot log into it from the remote machines with
public-key-authentication, but instead need a password (unlike the
other direction). With the ssh-tunnel setup described above, I would
avoid having to type the password, which is not just annoying, but
also a security risk.
- anton
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