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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root   login?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:10:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <go19n1$guj$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org>

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?

Don't think there's a way.  The simplest would be installing an X 
filemanager on the server but don't run X only on your machine (ssh -Y).

(Btw, in case you're using KDE, you don't need sshfs.  You can simply 
fish:// into your server in Dolphin or Konqueror.)




  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 17:11 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 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-24 17:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-02-24 19:50 ` 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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