On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I used to use NFS back in 2000 - back when we still thought unsecured local services were okay. And I loved it - it was slow, but very useful. So I'd like to start using it again, but I want it secured. ...
You might want to look at sshfs instead. This is a nifty thing that uses SSH, SFTP, and FUSE to let you mount storage from a remote box that you have SSH access to. Linux even lets non-root users do this in a way that makes the mount not exist for any other user. And since any user can look at the man page and just do it, there's far less hassle for the sysadmin to set up. And you don't have to open any new holes besides the already-well-tested SSH daemon.
I've used sshfs for a few years, and it's wonderful -- I can edit (what appears to be) locally, and Everything Just Works. Use sshfs user@domain:/path/to/Directory local_mountpoint to connect, and fusermount -u local_mountpoint to disconnect. -- Alex Beamish Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler, Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ Baritone, Board Member, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com Certified Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society / www.barbershop.org