Is there a way to use sshfs for a machine “two jumps away”?
For transferring files between two Linux machines I always felt more comfortable using the graphical file managers such as Nautilus, which offer the option to connect to a remote machine via SSH. However today I need to transfer files to a machine I cannot access directly -- I need to first SSH into a certain server and then do another SSH into my final destination. Is there still a way to do a GUI-friendly file transfer here or should I just fall back to good-old command-line scp this time?
ssh sshfs
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
add a comment |
For transferring files between two Linux machines I always felt more comfortable using the graphical file managers such as Nautilus, which offer the option to connect to a remote machine via SSH. However today I need to transfer files to a machine I cannot access directly -- I need to first SSH into a certain server and then do another SSH into my final destination. Is there still a way to do a GUI-friendly file transfer here or should I just fall back to good-old command-line scp this time?
ssh sshfs
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15
add a comment |
For transferring files between two Linux machines I always felt more comfortable using the graphical file managers such as Nautilus, which offer the option to connect to a remote machine via SSH. However today I need to transfer files to a machine I cannot access directly -- I need to first SSH into a certain server and then do another SSH into my final destination. Is there still a way to do a GUI-friendly file transfer here or should I just fall back to good-old command-line scp this time?
ssh sshfs
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
For transferring files between two Linux machines I always felt more comfortable using the graphical file managers such as Nautilus, which offer the option to connect to a remote machine via SSH. However today I need to transfer files to a machine I cannot access directly -- I need to first SSH into a certain server and then do another SSH into my final destination. Is there still a way to do a GUI-friendly file transfer here or should I just fall back to good-old command-line scp this time?
ssh sshfs
ssh sshfs
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
asked Jan 21 at 19:50
hugomghugomg
1,86931635
1,86931635
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15
add a comment |
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
Supposing the intermediate host is allowing tunnels, you can do half of the work using command line and finish graphically as usual.
sshfs -o ssh_command='ssh -J firstuser@firsthost' finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory
This will instruct sshfs to run its ssh backend (itself running the sftp subsystem in the end) with an additional -J option, equivalent to the ProxyJump configuration option, which itself will transparently create a tunnel to the SSH destination.
This is equivalent to adding instead in $HOME/.ssh/config:
Host finalhost
ProxyJump firstuser@firsthost
and just run sshfs finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory, or else you can also put the above two lines in a file and use the -F option of sshfs with this file.
Now your directory localdirectory is usable with Nautilus or any other tool, GUI or not (but usually limited to the user running sshfs, as usual).
It's quite possible that having this option in $HOME/.ssh/config will allow your GUI tool to transparently work as usual to mount the directory, thus not needing CLI anymore. I couldn't test this.
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "106"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2funix.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f495845%2fis-there-a-way-to-use-sshfs-for-a-machine-two-jumps-away%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
Supposing the intermediate host is allowing tunnels, you can do half of the work using command line and finish graphically as usual.
sshfs -o ssh_command='ssh -J firstuser@firsthost' finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory
This will instruct sshfs to run its ssh backend (itself running the sftp subsystem in the end) with an additional -J option, equivalent to the ProxyJump configuration option, which itself will transparently create a tunnel to the SSH destination.
This is equivalent to adding instead in $HOME/.ssh/config:
Host finalhost
ProxyJump firstuser@firsthost
and just run sshfs finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory, or else you can also put the above two lines in a file and use the -F option of sshfs with this file.
Now your directory localdirectory is usable with Nautilus or any other tool, GUI or not (but usually limited to the user running sshfs, as usual).
It's quite possible that having this option in $HOME/.ssh/config will allow your GUI tool to transparently work as usual to mount the directory, thus not needing CLI anymore. I couldn't test this.
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
add a comment |
Supposing the intermediate host is allowing tunnels, you can do half of the work using command line and finish graphically as usual.
sshfs -o ssh_command='ssh -J firstuser@firsthost' finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory
This will instruct sshfs to run its ssh backend (itself running the sftp subsystem in the end) with an additional -J option, equivalent to the ProxyJump configuration option, which itself will transparently create a tunnel to the SSH destination.
This is equivalent to adding instead in $HOME/.ssh/config:
Host finalhost
ProxyJump firstuser@firsthost
and just run sshfs finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory, or else you can also put the above two lines in a file and use the -F option of sshfs with this file.
Now your directory localdirectory is usable with Nautilus or any other tool, GUI or not (but usually limited to the user running sshfs, as usual).
It's quite possible that having this option in $HOME/.ssh/config will allow your GUI tool to transparently work as usual to mount the directory, thus not needing CLI anymore. I couldn't test this.
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
add a comment |
Supposing the intermediate host is allowing tunnels, you can do half of the work using command line and finish graphically as usual.
sshfs -o ssh_command='ssh -J firstuser@firsthost' finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory
This will instruct sshfs to run its ssh backend (itself running the sftp subsystem in the end) with an additional -J option, equivalent to the ProxyJump configuration option, which itself will transparently create a tunnel to the SSH destination.
This is equivalent to adding instead in $HOME/.ssh/config:
Host finalhost
ProxyJump firstuser@firsthost
and just run sshfs finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory, or else you can also put the above two lines in a file and use the -F option of sshfs with this file.
Now your directory localdirectory is usable with Nautilus or any other tool, GUI or not (but usually limited to the user running sshfs, as usual).
It's quite possible that having this option in $HOME/.ssh/config will allow your GUI tool to transparently work as usual to mount the directory, thus not needing CLI anymore. I couldn't test this.
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
Supposing the intermediate host is allowing tunnels, you can do half of the work using command line and finish graphically as usual.
sshfs -o ssh_command='ssh -J firstuser@firsthost' finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory
This will instruct sshfs to run its ssh backend (itself running the sftp subsystem in the end) with an additional -J option, equivalent to the ProxyJump configuration option, which itself will transparently create a tunnel to the SSH destination.
This is equivalent to adding instead in $HOME/.ssh/config:
Host finalhost
ProxyJump firstuser@firsthost
and just run sshfs finaluser@finalhost:directory localdirectory, or else you can also put the above two lines in a file and use the -F option of sshfs with this file.
Now your directory localdirectory is usable with Nautilus or any other tool, GUI or not (but usually limited to the user running sshfs, as usual).
It's quite possible that having this option in $HOME/.ssh/config will allow your GUI tool to transparently work as usual to mount the directory, thus not needing CLI anymore. I couldn't test this.
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
edited Jan 21 at 20:40
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
answered Jan 21 at 20:34
A.BA.B
4,5471725
4,5471725
add a comment |
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Unix & Linux Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2funix.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f495845%2fis-there-a-way-to-use-sshfs-for-a-machine-two-jumps-away%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Does the intermediate server allow tunnels?
– A.B
Jan 21 at 20:14
I have no idea, but feel free to answer assuming they do :)
– hugomg
Jan 21 at 20:15