Last Updated: February 25, 2016

SSH-FS Script.py

Due to my employer's server-configuration, I find myself developing
on remote machines often. However, I find it a pain to setup a dev
environment on every new machine. So, I usually just end up working
local as much as possible via SSH-FS. For anyone else that had to
do this as well, here is a handly little script that will hopefully
help you out (just a little).

#!/usr/bin/env python
from subprocess import call
import os

servers = [
 {
 'host': 'some.remote.host', # host to connect to
 'dir' : '/usr/local/supersecret/' # remote dir to mount
 },
 {
 'host': 'some.other.remote.host',
 'dir' : '/home/USER/'
 }
]
user = os.environ['USER']


def connect():
 """
 Connect SSH-FS's
 """
 for server in servers:
 try:
 print("connecting to %s" %(server['host']))
 print("------------------------------")
 call(["sudo", "mkdir", "-p", "/Volumes/%s" % (server['host'])])
 call(["sudo", "chown", "-R", user, "/Volumes/%s" % (server['host'])])
 status = call(["sshfs",
 "%s:%s" % (server['host'], server['dir']),
 "/Volumes/%s" %(server['host'])])

 if status == 0:
 print("connected")
 print("mounted locally at /Volumes/%s" % (server['host']))
 print("mounted remotely at %s" % (server['dir']))
 except:
 print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
 finally:
 print("\n")


def get_sudo():
 call(["echo", "Running as root. Beware!! (mwahahahaha)"])
 call(["sudo", "echo"])


get_sudo()
connect()

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