Mounting remotely with sshfs and curlftpfs

October 16, 2023 by Roberto Puzzanghera 0 comments

Configure the remote ssh server to accept the connection for root with the RSA key. Edit your /etc/sshd_config

Port 12345
AllowUsers root 
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

In your local PC, create the private and public keys:

root@localhost:~# ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost.
Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
a0:53:33:c5:d1:ea:4c:e2:a1:98:d9:ba:b0:e8:5f:90 root@localhost
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|    o++o         |
|     o. .        |
|    . ..         |
|    .oo.         |
|   E.O .S        |
|    * *          |
|.  . o .         |
|.o. . .          |
|+.oo             |
+-----------------+

Append the public key id_rsa_remoteHost.pub to the remote server's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. ssh-copy-id is a program which can do this for you:

root@localhost:~# ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost -p 12345 root@remoteHost

Now test that the connection is allowed with no password:

root@localhost:~# ssh -p 12345 -l root -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost <remoteHost>
Last login: Mon Sep  2 16:04:57 2013 from localhost
Linux 2.6.32.10-vs2.3.0.36.29.2-smp.
root@remotehost:~#

You can have a quick connection to the remote Host if you setup a ~/.ssh/config file as follow

Host RemoteHost
HostName remoteHost.net
User root
Port 12345
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost

and connecting as

> ssh RemoteHost
Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa_remoteHost':
Last login: Mon Sep  2 16:04:57 2013 from localhost
Linux 2.6.32.10-vs2.3.0.36.29.2-smp.
root@remotehost:~#

Now you can mount with sshfs as follows

sshfs RemoteHost:/path/to/remote/folder /path/to/local/mount -F ~/.ssh/config

Mounting remotely with curlftpfs

If ssh is not an option, but you have an ftp connection available. you may want to use curlftpfs to mount the remote folder locally, encrypting the connection with TLS  in this way:

curlftpfs -v \
        -o ssl_control \
        -o no_verify_hostname \
        -o no_verify_peer \
        -o uid=1000 \
        -o gid=100 \
        -o umask=022 \
        ftp://ftp.mydomain.xyz/ \
        /local/mnt/folder/

This command requires that your ftp account was saved in your ~/.netrc file in this way:

> more ~/.netrc

machine ftp.mydomain.xyz
login myuser
password mypass

Take a look to the curlftpfs' man page for details on http://linux.die.net/man/1/curlftpfs.

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