[HN Gopher] How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD
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       How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2022-07-23 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | sigjuice wrote:
       | Great info. But this best belongs in a man page (or some other
       | relevant document) in sysutils/sshfs-fuse, considering OpenBSD's
       | reputation for high quality documentation.
        
         | asveikau wrote:
         | I don't think that reputation applies to stuff from the ports
         | tree, which is by definition not OpenBSD.
        
           | JoachimSchipper wrote:
           | Not _really_ , but several ports do have OpenBSD-specific
           | documentation added by the port maintainer. I agree that it
           | would be nice to put this information in the port.
        
       | gurjeet wrote:
       | Since this is on frontage, a gentle reminder, dear reader, sshfs
       | is looking for maintainers, and currently does not have any.
       | 
       | https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
        
         | mrweasel wrote:
         | I'm a little ambivalent about sshfs. It would be sad to see it
         | die out. On the other hand I've only ever seen it misused.
        
           | vaylian wrote:
           | misused in which ways?
        
         | djbusby wrote:
         | Yea, I'm a heavy user of sshfs and am nervous about this.
        
           | ori_b wrote:
           | You can maintain it, and get the associated glory and fame!
           | 
           | (it honestly seems relatively finished, so I don't think
           | there's all that much work, either.)
        
             | gurjeet wrote:
             | I did consider that. But then a cursory look at the open
             | issues proved that I don't have the requisite knowledge,
             | and resources (various platforms that it supports)
        
           | Datagenerator wrote:
           | Then there is Rclone which can do sshfs alike mounts
        
             | inshadows wrote:
             | Though from quick skim of https://rclone.org/sftp/ it seems
             | you have to configure each remote. With sshfs you don't
             | need to do any configuration apart from ~/.ssh.
        
         | MuffinFlavored wrote:
         | Any more modern alternatives than sshfs that people should be
         | looking into using?
        
       | egberts1 wrote:
       | I also wrote a cautionary cybersecurity tale on ... SSHFP.
       | 
       | Ooop, that's SSHFS.
       | 
       | My bad.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | DHowett wrote:
         | I believe you're talking about "SSHFP," a DNS RR that contains
         | SSH fingerprints.
         | 
         | This article is discussing "SSHFS," a userspace filesystem
         | driver that uses SSH/SFTP as a transport to expose remote files
         | locally.
        
           | egberts1 wrote:
           | I blame my very own brain-fart.
        
       | diydsp wrote:
       | I love this util and recommend it to ppl at work. I don't have
       | the skills to maintain it but would contribute $.
        
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