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 1Lc0ob-0001iv-45 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 819CBE0517; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B795E0517 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A2A64D05 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.469 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.469 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.130, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ruShEScjpBuq for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3FF64DC4 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc0oI-0004uU-Ba for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:10 +0000 Received: from athedsl-4363353.home.otenet.gr ([79.130.4.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:10 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-4363353.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:11:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras 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 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-4363353.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090215) In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 75199909-2e67-483b-a840-99fde088661c X-Archives-Hash: e86b95a848a266bb8536e4eedcb48a70 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.)