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| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| date | Thu, 15 May 2014 13:43:03 +0200 |
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| 1 Title: sshfs - mounting with private key | |
| 2 Date: 2014-05-15 | |
| 3 Lang: en | |
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| 5 To analyze data on a customer's server, I often hack together small [Groovy](http://groovy.codehaus.org) scripts. I type tiny scripts right in the editor on the remote side but sometimes it's tedious to type over a slowish ssh connection. | |
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| 7 [sshfs](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html) seems to come in quite handy in this case. However everytime I tried before I was unable to make sshfs work with ssh keys (password auth is disabled on the customer machines). | |
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| 9 Now I stumbled over the [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/)' Wiki which had the right bit of info hidden inside of their [sshfs documentation page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sshfs). | |
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| 11 Long story short: To mount via sshfs using an existing ssh key, use | |
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| 13 sshfs -o IdentityFile=/path/to/the/ssh/private/key host:/dir /mountpoint | |
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| 15 This approach even works with an ssh agent. Make sure that you get all prompts out of the way (i.e. asking for the key password etc) before mounting. |