On Mon, October 20, 2014 10:49, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:

[OP: `they don't allow ssh between the datacenters` ...but... they nfs between them...??? ME: much head scratching.]

We have a Value Added Network (VAN) provider who insists on a similar thing. We were given sftp access to our transaction files but not ssh. They also will not run an rsync daemon for us.

We ended up locally mounting the remote host directories with fuse-ssh (sshfs) over sftp using RSA keys to bypass the interactive logins.