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1 sshmount-netrc
A small Python script that mounts ssh mount points using authentication from your .netrc (or alternatively .authinfo) file.
1.1 Dependencies
You will need the sshfs package installed and in the PATH.
On Arch linux it is located in the Community repo. You can install it using:
pacman -S sshfs
1.2 Installation
python setup.py install
1.3 Usage
1.3.1 netrc configuration
Your netrc file should have a line matching the following pattern:
machine my_server_name login my_login password my_password
1.3.2 command
Its simplest form:
sshmount-netrc my_server_name
Specifying a custom mount point:
sshmount-netrc -m my_mount_point my_server_name
Specifying a custom netrc location:
sshmount-netrc -f ~/.authinfo my_server_name
1.3.3 default mount point
If no mountpoint is specified the following default will be used
~/mnt/my_login@my_server_name
1.3.4 result
Under the hood, this script will then execute the following linux commad:
echo my_password | sshfs -o password_stdin my_login@my_server_name: /my_mount_point
1.4 Limitation
Currently you cannot have multiple logins on one machine. This is due to a long standing shortcoming in the Python netrc library. At the time of writing the bug describing it has not been resolved: http://bugs.python.org/issue11416