[ILUG] SSH

[John Allen]

On Thursday 22 July 2004 08:47, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > You mean something like.
> > > gvim /net/tornado/home/jallen/.bashrc
> >
> > automount rules!
>
> it also relies that tornado has exported the filesystems over NFS so it
> fails my VMS test, the VMS one gave you access to any file you would have
> access to if you are logged into the remote machine just by prepending
> machine:: to the front of the filename, the sheer power of this is not
> apparent until you used to it and pissed at UNIXes for not having it :-)
>
> something like this should be possible now with ssh and a kernel
> filesystem, some sort of /ssh/machine2/ and it would use your keys and
> username etc to connect also of course this is no use until it is used
> everywhere and we ask how we survived for so long without it!!!
>

Aha, a decent project for the ILUG to undertake. Ok, who would be willing to 
create such a beast; proper remote authentication (sshagent can be used), 
full access to remote filesystems etc....

> Dave.
>
> --
> David Airlie, Software Engineer
> http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
> pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person

-- 
John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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