On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:57:59 -0300, Jim Holsenback wrote:

> On 09/12/2011 06:20 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:17:02 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not aware of any Unix system which *defaults* to letting remote
>>> users access the entire filesystem if they know the root password.
>>> Probably because it's a stunningly bad idea, unless the local network
>>> is trusted. But anyway...
>>
>> Every unix system can do this with something like sshfs installed - on
>> the client side only - and sshd running on the server.
>>
>> Jim
> yep .. that's what I use to get/put files between my system and the pov
> server ... both are "nix" machines. The ssh is just used to establish a
> secure connection, but the underlaying protocol is ftp to transfer
> files. BTW: there are windows versions of the the same tool set ...
> stelnet, sftp (etc) that I used when I was exclusive on a doze box

No, sshfs is different than sftp - sshfs actually uses fuse to allow you 
to mount the remote filesystem locally using just the sshd daemon.

Quite handy if you don't want to have an ftp daemon running.

Jim

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