[FreeNX-kNX] FUSE / SSHFS

[Murray Trainer]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 19:38, Murray Trainer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:24, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > On Monday 12 December 2005 07:57, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > Just discovered and tried out sshfs.
> > > 
> > > http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
> > 
> > It needs a Kernel 2.6.14 or newer (or a patching and recompilation of
> > a previous versions), and we can not (yet) assume that this Kernel is
> > common.
> 
> > > It allows you to mount a remote filesystem locally via an ssh tunnel. 
> > > Nothing needs to be done on the server end for it to work.  It seems to
> > > work pretty well between Linux systems over a WAN.  Not sure if it works
> > > on Windows under CYGWIN yet? f
> > 
> > No.
> 
> I saw a few bug reports regarding CYGWIN so someone is working on it :-)
> 
> > > I'm wondering if this may be a possible 
> > > alternative to using Samba for NX/FreeNX file sharing. 
> > 
> > We'll be using the fish protocol (in the shape "nxfish") soon in FreeNX
> > (but this will work only for KDE sessions from a client that has an SSH
> > server running.
> > 
> > > Seems like it 
> > > would be less problematic for users to setup than samba and maybe even
> > > perform better.   
> > 
> > Right. Samba is still a pain to setup.
> > 
> > > One question I would have for anyone familiar with ssh/sshfs is whether
> > > it would be possible on the server end to disallow direct ssh login
> > > access for users while still allowing access to their files via
> > > sshfs.         
> > 
> > Not sure right now. Can you just try it?
> 
> I'll let you know the sshd config if I get it working.

Hi Kurt,

Just tried mounting a user's home directory with NX access but no direct
ssh login access.  I couldn't authenticate to mount the filesystem so it
looks like ssh login access is required.  I couldn't see anything in the
sshd_config file that might be helpful. 

Murray