Very fast editing over sshfs

Update: this can cause some of your ssh sessions to hang, so be aware of that.

Add this to your ~/.ssh/config

Host myserver.mydomain.com
  ControlMaster auto
  ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p

Then, say you have root access via your ssh pub key

mkdir tmp001
sshfs -o uid=1000 root@myserver.mydomain.com:/var/www tmp001

Now, the files in tmp001 map to your remote /var/www directory. And access to them uses an ssh session that is maintained in your /tmp directory, i.e. all interactions are performed over the same ssh session.

To see the tmp file, if you just opened the sshfs session in the last 10 mins

find /tmp -mmin -10 -ls

Edit files on a remote server via your Mac using ssh, sshfs and brew

1. install latest xcode
2. install brew
3. install sshfs using brew
1. make sure to change any permissions specified
4. mkdir mytmpdir
5. sshfs -o uid=<your local numerical id> root@<remote server>:<remote dir> mytmpdir
1. e.g. sshfs -o uid=501 root@10.1.0.100:images mytmpdir
6. edit files that appear in tmpdir, and when you save them, the remote files will be updated

Unmount

1. umount mytmpdir

Edit remote files with local editor using ssh and sshfs

1. apt-get -y install sshfs
2. Add your local user to the fuse group
3. mkdir ~/mylocaldir
4. sshfs -o idmap=user mylocaluser@myremoteserver.com:/remotepath ~/mylocaldir
5. Edit files under ~/mylocaldir, and as you save them, they are automatically updated in /remotepath

Note: the "-o uid=500" can be used if you get permission errors, but replace "500" with you local id number

Errors

1. "Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer"
1. change this line in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to match what's here
1. Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
2. happens on RedHat Enterprise 6.1 for sure