2014-07-14 Reverse SSHFS mounts (fs push)
https://blog.dhampir.no/content/reverse-sshfs-mounts-fs-push
sshfs is a neat way of mounting a file system from one machine to another over an encrypted ssh channel. However, for machine CLIENT to access a file system that resides on machine HOST, CLIENT must generally be able to log in to HOST. In addition, CLIENT must be able to connect to HOST in the first place, though a tunnel from HOST to CLIENT can easily mediate this if a connection can only be initiated in that direction.
However, the login itself may still be an issue. You might not want to type your password for HOST on CLIENT, or set up a keyless login using public/private keys. You might not entirely trust CLIENT, from which you want to access the file system.
dpipe to the rescue.
Using dpipe, available in the “vde2” package on Debian (and, likely, derivatives), you can initiate the connection the other way and use sshfs in “slave mode”, in which it communicates over standard input and output instead o