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How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD
- sigjuice 4y agoGreat info. But this best belongs in a man page (or some other relevant document) in sysutils/sshfs-fuse, considering OpenBSD’s reputation for high quality documentation.
- asveikau 4y agoI don't think that reputation applies to stuff from the ports tree, which is by definition not OpenBSD.
- JoachimSchipper 4y agoNot really, but several ports do have OpenBSD-specific documentation added by the port maintainer. I agree that it would be nice to put this information in the port.
- gurjeet 4y agoSince this is on frontage, a gentle reminder, dear reader, sshfs is looking for maintainers, and currently does not have any. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
- mrweasel 4y agoI’m a little ambivalent about sshfs. It would be sad to see it die out. On the other hand I’ve only ever seen it misused.
- djbusby 4y agoYea, I'm a heavy user of sshfs and am nervous about this.
- ori_b 4y agoYou can maintain it, and get the associated glory and fame! (it honestly seems relatively finished, so I don't think there's all that much work, either.)
- gurjeet 4y agoI did consider that. But then a cursory look at the open issues proved that I don’t have the requisite knowledge, and resources (various platforms that it supports)
- Datagenerator 4y agoThen there is Rclone which can do sshfs alike mounts
- inshadows 4y agoThough from quick skim of https://rclone.org/sftp/ https://rclone.org/sftp/ it seems you have to configure each remote. With sshfs you don't need to do any configuration apart from ~/.ssh.
- naniwaduni 4y agoUntil you need to write, at which point you run into a litany of quirks that stem from the fact that rclone is designed to work with fancy remote kv-stores and has no idea how to partial-update.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoAny more modern alternatives than sshfs that people should be looking into using?
- smackeyacky 4y agoTailscale + NFS or Tailscale + SMB SSHFS is fun but there are easier ways to accomplish the same thing.
- mekster 4y agoHow is sshfs not easy? It's the simplest form of a remote mount. Those combinations are far more complicated than using the same transport and firewall rules that you've already configured.
- smackeyacky 4y agoIts not simpler when you consider that ssh needs an open port on your router.
- mekster 4y agoReally? How do you manage those servers in the first place?
- lsferreira42 4y agoIf i had the necessary skills i would for sure help this project, i have used it more times than i can count :/
- gurjeet 4y agoThe situation is much worse than I had imagined; the parent project, libfuse, is also in need of a maintainer. https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
- egberts1 4y agoI also wrote a cautionary cybersecurity tale on … SSHFP. Ooop, that’s SSHFS. My bad.
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- DHowett 4y agoI believe you're talking about "SSHFP," a DNS RR that contains SSH fingerprints. This article is discussing "SSHFS," a userspace filesystem driver that uses SSH/SFTP as a transport to expose remote files locally.
- egberts1 4y agoI blame my very own brain-fart.
- pabs3 4y agoPlease post your tale of SSHFP in a new thread, sounds interesting.
- diydsp 4y agoI love this util and recommend it to ppl at work. I don't have the skills to maintain it but would contribute $.
- spicybright 4y agoSSHFS is next level in terms of networking. We've had network drives forever, but having a guarantee it will act like a normal filesystem makes it so much smoother to work with. That said, in my book, sync thing is an even better version for synced file systems. Mostly because you can't lose connection or need to setup the connection each time.
- mekster 4y agoThose are different solutions. You don't sync files locally.