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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:42
Message-Id: 200902241912.14159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login? by Michael Higgins
1 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 19:02:42 Michael Higgins wrote:
2 > I can't figure this one out.
3 >
4 > Have disallowed root login, public key auth.
5 >
6 > Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like
7 > to point and click for a change.
8 >
9 > Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remote machine...
10 >
11 > I was thinking sshfs, but since I can't login directly as root, is there
12 > some other way?
13
14 Export temporarily via nfs or samba. With nfs, remember to set no_root_squash,
15 which is highly unrecommended, leaving samba as actually quite decent for this
16 kind of thing.
17
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19 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com