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goku12today at 1:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

How about mounting your dotfiles directory (~/.config) or even your entire home directory on the remote system using SSHFS or NFS? I'm sure somebody would have tried it or some project may already exist. Any idea why that isn't as prevalent as copying your dotfiles over?


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cl3mischtoday at 4:05 PM

That requires the remote machine to be configured to SSH into your local machine. In the scenario where OP's project is useful (SSH to foreign machines) I might not want that.

On the other hand, if the remote machine is mine, it will have my config anyway.

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sigwinchtoday at 2:47 PM

I’m trying to imagine why sshfs mounting the less-capable remote onto the workstation would be blocked.

vbernattoday at 2:27 PM

This would enable a lot of attacks.

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