Posts Tagged ‘sshfs’

Ssh-copy-id and other ssh tips

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Although using public key authentication instead of passwords is a great method for increasing the security of SSH transfers, transferring SSH identity keys can be a royal pain. First, you create your key pairs; then, you copy the public key into the correct locations on all the machines you want to log into. The keys must be in a particular format, and you must go into the correct directory with the correct permissions. Fortunately, ssh-copy-id, a slick utility included with OpenSSH, makes it easy.
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Mounting a SSH folder locally with sshfs

Monday, April 7th, 2008

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a remote (over the internet) based computer’s file system like a local one.
You will be able to use it exactly like you use a normal folder cutting, copying, pasting and creating documents etc.
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