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Donald A. Tevault
Donald A. Tevault
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Donald A. Tevault

Donald A. Tevault - but you can call him Donnie - got involved with Linux way back in 2006, and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3-Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.
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Sharing a directory with SSHFS

There are several ways to share a directory across a network. In enterprise settings, you’ll find the Network Filesystem (NFS), Samba, and various distributed filesystems. SSHFS isn’t used in enterprises quite as much, but it can still come in handy. The beauty of it is that all of its network traffic is encrypted by default, unlike with NFS or Samba. And, other than installing the SSHFS client program and creating a local mount-point directory, it doesn’t require any configuration beyond what you’ve already done. It’s especially handy for accessing a directory on a cloud-based Virtual Private Server (VPS) because it allows you to just create files in the shared directory rather than using scp or sftp commands to transfer the files. So, if you’re ready, let’s jump in.

Hands-on lab – Sharing a directory with SSHFS

For this lab, we’ll use two VMs. For the server, you can use any of...

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Donald A. Tevault

Donald A. Tevault - but you can call him Donnie - got involved with Linux way back in 2006, and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3-Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.
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