SFS 0.6 Manual

Table of Contents

• SFS
• Introduction
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Building SFS
  • Problems building SFS
• Getting Started
  • Quick client setup
  • Quick server setup
  • Getting started as an SFS user
• System overview
• SFS configuration files
  • sfs_config--system-wide configuration parameters
  • sfsrwsd_config--File server configuration
  • sfsauthd_config--User-authentication daemon configuration
  • sfs_users--User-authentication database
  • sfssd_config--Meta-server configuration
  • sfs_srp_params--Default parameters for SRP protocol
  • sfscd_config--Meta-client configuration
• Command reference guide
  • sfsagent reference guide
  • sfskey reference guide
  • rex reference guide
  • ssu command
  • sfscd command
  • sfssd command
  • sfsrwsd daemon
  • sfsauthd daemon
• Security considerations
  • Vulnerabilities created by SFS
  • Vulnerabilities exploitable because of SFS
  • Vulnerabilities in the SFS implementation
• How to contact people involved with SFS
• Concept Index

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SFS

• Overview: Introduction to SFS
• Installation: Building and installing the SFS software
• Getting Started: Play with SFS as quickly as possible
• System overview: High-level overview of SFS's components
• SFS configuration: SFS configuration files
• Command reference: Command usage reference guide
• Security: Security implications of running SFS
• Contacts: How to contact the authors, report bugs
• Concept Index: Index of concepts

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  Installation

• Requirements: Requirements for building and running SFS
• Building: How to build and install the SFS distribution
• Build Problems: Common problems compiling the source

  Getting Started

• Quick client setup: How to set up an SFS client
• Quick server setup: How to set up an SFS server
• Quick user setup: How to get started as an SFS user

  SFS configuration files

• sfs_config: System-wide configuration parameters
• sfsrwsd_config: File server configuration
• sfsauthd_config: User-authentication daemon configuration
• sfs_users: User-authentication database
• sfssd_config: Meta-server configuration
• sfs_srp_params: Default parameters for SRP protocol
• sfscd_config: Meta-client configuration

  Command reference guide

• sfsagent: Run by each user for authentication to servers
• sfskey: Controls the agent
• rex: Remote execution facility
• ssu: Become root without changing SFS credentials
• sfscd: Daemon run by root on all client machines
• sfssd: Daemon run by root on all server machines
• sfsrwsd: Daemon implementing read-write file server
• sfsauthd:

  Security considerations

• new vulnerabilities: Vulnerabilities created by SFS
• exposed vulnerabilities: Vulnerabilities exploitable because of SFS
• implementation vulnerabilities: Vulnerabilities in the SFS implementation