Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Hands-on lab – sharing a directory with SSHFS

For this lab, we'll use two VMs. For the server, you can use Ubuntu, CentOS 7, or CentOS 8. The client can be either Ubuntu or CentOS 7. (At the time of writing, CentOS 8 still doesn't have the client package that we need to install for this. But, as I keep saying, that might change by the time you read this.) Let's get started:

1. Boot up one VM for a server. (That's all you need to do for the server end.)
2. On the other VM that you'll use as a client, create a mount-point directory within your own home directory, like so:

mkdir remote

3. On the client VM, install the SSHFS client. On Ubuntu, do the following:

sudo apt install sshfs

On CentOS 7, do the following:

sudo yum install fuse-sshfs

4. From ...