Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:36:23 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sftp mount? Message-ID: <20031108123623.GB65354@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> References: <20031107142750.GA833@lewiz.org> <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org>
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* Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> [20031107 18:01]: wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > * Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> [20031107 17:28]: wrote:
> > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can
> > > transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets qui=
te
> > > painful after a while.
> >=20
> > What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use
>=20
> Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it.
> In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't
> want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either,
> since I'm not doing the same task over and over.
>=20
> > Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they
> > allow NFS and I doubt it already.
>=20
> No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp.
>=20
> > > Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something simila=
r?
> > > Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh.
> >=20
> > Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing.
>=20
> I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be
> transparently available from a local directory :P
I don't know how to do that via ssh, but I know how to execute commands
remotely via SSH:
ssh remote_host -t -A /usr/bin/ee /path/to/some/file
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Best regards,
Odhiambo Washington
Wananchi Online Ltd.
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