Steve Glendinning » Linux

Found a new toy: sshfs

Steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:26:29 +0000

I just discovered sshfs. This allows you to mount a remote filesystem using nothing at the server end other than a standard ssh server.

Once installer, as a non-root user you can just:

mkdir mnt sshfs username@server.domain.com:/path mnt

Then you can access it, copy files etc (both directions) as if it were a local directory

ls mnt

When finished this disconnects it:

fusermount -u mnt

Found at http://home.prea.net/hacking/X2200/NFS

How to make home and end keys work with Putty

Steve — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:08 +0000

Using Putty to ssh onto a Debian machine, the “home” and “end” keys don’t behave well. By default, both of these keys output a “~” character instead of moving the cursor to the beginning or end of the line.

I found the solution, it’s a simple change in Putty’s settings (Connection -> Data -> Terminal-type string). By default this is set to “xterm” but changing it to “linux” fixes the home and end keys.