Subject: Re: sshfs alternative?
To: Travis Poppe <tlp@liquidx.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/17/2006 14:20:28
In message <200601171206.25244.tlp@liquidx.org>, Travis Poppe writes:
>Hello,
>
>I was recently doing some thinking about how I might access my data at home 
>from a friend's house or somewhere else while using my Jornada 720.
>
>FreeBSD recently got a port of FuseFS+SSHFS, which allows you to mount a 
>remote filesystem on another machine via ssh so long as you have ssh access 
>to it. This would be ideal, but I don't believe NetBSD has FUSE support yet.
>
>Are there any encrypted/secure alternatives to this on NetBSD that would be 
>usable on the Jornada 720 (hpcarm)? CPU and RAM usage are of concern. NFS 
>would be fine for the device while at home, but not from remote locations.
>

I'm not sure what your concern is.  Would running NFS over IPsec solve 
your remote access problem?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb