From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc0qk-0004cR-Ea for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69DB6E052D; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f161.google.com (mail-fx0-f161.google.com [209.85.220.161]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFDBE052D for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so2861473fxm.10 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:13:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I/2Qs+k9MDDUQax1SEa0+r5ilBwlvuYQdmBEOCyFrHI=; b=L9DqTAM/ZbaSzgv/0VKD6lkuRdXE8ZXZWG3M2NhgjyiedE/GwAGt33s2+UQzCav1KM 0gk5hnDTvrqVvLRcIoJO4P+Q1YMeAuMh9fj6enHUQSZ6WLLDJkQSGpMmzpvjtigGq34k FU2vRktWm6zYwU6XaDzMix47Cy0Lz2SOSEbNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VgTbRHvaFDFtVSfsFT8x4Rw9IT+v8ESk4lwKREpPAVlH+sgJ5W5JKNCYrMKPcabMmI Oyf78S3KwSS+RWC3Vuvfju1ziXOXxTbJGqg8huz0xLoZ98mouz/iIAZA/dSHKPJgm6HC cZVxFjRUnGVZ6kd81in23sbaFYVBxCPecY2OM= Received: by 10.103.229.12 with SMTP id g12mr62545mur.16.1235495618464; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:13:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-117-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i39sm19514171ugd.32.2009.02.24.09.13.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:13:37 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902241912.14159.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 520ad4ed-dd04-4f5e-bc92-6561bf414891 X-Archives-Hash: 6a0484d70dd26ca46114154d81df0af8 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