odd things

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     Thanks for the reference but it didn't help much. It seems FUSE is a 
>> kernel driver and gvfs is a virtual file sytem. And all this is odd 
>> things to me. Sorry I asked :-)
>>     
>
> Try the Wiki entry on FUSE 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace)
>
> There's a lot of tech stuff in there, but basically it's a way to 
> implement filesystem drivers without running privileged (root) code.
>
> There's a lot of cool stuff done using FUSE...for example, mounting your 
> gmail account space as a directory, and one I've used is to mount a 
> remote directory using SSH so if you have a home system with SSHD 
> running you can "mount" your home directory at your house as another 
> directory on a remote computer.
>
>   
    Well I have done ssh back when you needed a password and it seemed 
to work just fine. But you did need to know your IP numbers that were 
hard to remember. It seems there is some complexity growing from the 
Ubuntu urge to remove the root password.

Karl


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