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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:53:49 -0600
From:      Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>
To:        Zuk Zuk <polkapink@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ln accross ssh
Message-ID:  <20080214005349.GA10465@aleph.cepheid.org>
In-Reply-To: <7978cb0a0802131434v26ee5bf3ra55e6ed673221a3b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <7978cb0a0802131434v26ee5bf3ra55e6ed673221a3b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:34:11PM -0800, Zuk Zuk wrote:
> Why does "ln" not  work with ssh ?
> ln -s works across mounted file systems.
> 
> If an ln -s worked with ssh then I could just do
> 
> ln -s ssl://source_host@host_dir my_mount_point
> or ln -ssh source_host@host_dir my_mount_point
> 
> 
> and then any other command, i.e.,
> cd would be able to go ahead and interpret this as a request for ssh session
> . The reponsibility of further commands lies with the new session. Being
> able to scp from that directory is equivalent to having read permissions to
> it .
> ....
> sure many people would have thougth about this.. just wondering why its not
> there yet?

Look in ports for sysutils/fusefs-sshfs.  I believe that it will do
what you want.  And I think this really belongs in -questions.

Erik



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