bernermic / sshfsmanager

Utility for connecting a remote filesystem via ssh.

sshfsmanager

Utility for mounting / unmounting a remote filesystem via ssh. It will show you a simple dialogue window with your configured hosts in ~/.ssh/config to connect to.
If already connected script will unmount the selected host mount.

• run command wget -O ~/.local/bin/sshfsmanager https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bernermic/sshfsmanager/master/sshfsmanager this simply downloads the script and places sshfsmanager into ~/.local/bin/
• from CLI call sshfsmanager
• follow instructions from there

Install

The script will check this preconditions and tell you if it missing something.

• assumes generated ssh-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa is imported on remote host
• assumes ssh Host config ~/.ssh/config is given

Example config

ssh key

For better security it is recommended to set up and use an ssh key ~/.ssh/id_rsa for authentication.
Read how to generate an SSH key.

ssh config

Disclaimer: this is just a example ~/.ssh/config replace example with your domain/user.

 Host example
      Hostname example.com
      User example
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
      Ciphers [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr
      Compression yes

Further info see SSH config.