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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:12:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902241912.14159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org>

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 19:02:42 Michael Higgins wrote:
> I can't figure this one out.
>
> Have disallowed root login, public key auth.
>
> Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like
> to point and click for a change.
>
> Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remote machine...
>
> I was thinking sshfs, but since I can't login directly as root, is there
> some other way?

Export temporarily via nfs or samba. With nfs, remember to set no_root_squash, 
which is highly unrecommended, leaving samba as actually quite decent for this 
kind of thing.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-24 17:02 [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login? Michael Higgins
2009-02-24 17:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-24 17:12 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-02-24 19:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-02-24 20:26 ` Daniel Troeder
2009-02-25  3:42 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-02-25  8:50   ` Stroller
2009-02-25 17:13     ` Michael Higgins

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