*** Notes on SFS configuration:
SFS is a complex system to configure, and cannot be adequately
described in these limited files. It is strongly suggested that you
read the SFS documentation on before configuring
any of the various programs. A limited roadmap is provided for
reference here, but that is no substitute for a reading of the full
documentation. GNU info documentation ("info sfs") and manual pages
are installed as well.
The various programs in the SFS package are configured via files
in two directories: /usr/local/share/sfs/ (henceforth "share/sfs")
and /usr/local/etc/sfs (henceforth "etc/sfs"). The port installs
various configuration files into share/sfs directly from the
compilation of the SFS package. These files should never be edited
directly; they can be overridden by the creation of new files in
etc/sfs, as detailed below.
*** IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTE:
SFS operates by interfacing with NFS processes on localhost
(127.0.0.1). While every effort is taken to insure security, NFS
is a large subsystem with a long history of security problems.
Utilizing SFS thus may expose you to NFS-related problems and
attacks. It is strongly suggested that you read and ponder the
security considerations section of the SFS documentation before
setting up an SFS client or server. Additionally, it is STRONGLY
suggested that you set up a software firewall on any SFS client or
server machine to block unauthorized traffic to NFS-related programs
from other machines to the non-localhost IP addresses of your
machine. Discussions of how best to do this are outside the scope
of this document; consult your local guru, users group, mailing
list, or search engine.
*** Starting the SFS daemons (client and server):
There are sample startup files for sfscd and sfssd in /usr/local/etc/rc.d,
under the name sfscd.sh.sample and sfssd.sh.sample respectively.
These startup files are not enabled by default. Copy the files to
sfscd.sh or sfssd.sh to enable sfscd or sfssd (respectively) on
system boot.
sfscd and sfssd also run nicely under Daniel Bernstein's daemontools
package (/usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools or
); the -d flag makes the main
process stay in the foreground, and sends logs to stderr for easy
processing by multilog.
*** Setting up an SFS client
1) Set up sfscd to start on boot, via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sfscd.sh or
some other method of your preference.
2) Put the following line into /etc/rc.conf:
nfs_client_enable="YES"
3) Set up a firewall to prevent NFS traffic from outside the machine from
contacting your NFS processes.
4) Reboot. You should now have a working SFS client, which you can test
via the following command:
$ cat /sfs/sfs.fs.net:eu4cvv6wcnzscer98yn4qjpjnn9iv6pi/CONGRATULATIONS
You have set up a working SFS client.
*** Setting up an SFS server
(You do not need to set up an SFS host key on the server machine;
the port installation does this for you in
/usr/local/etc/sfs/sfs_host_key.)
1) Set up sfssd to start on boot, via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sfssd.sh or
some other method of your preference.
2) Put the following lines into /etc/rc.conf:
mountd_flags=""
nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
portmap_enable="YES"
If the following line occurs in /etc/rc.conf, remove it:
weak_mountd_authentication="YES"
3) Set up a firewall to prevent NFS traffic from outside the machine from
contacting your NFS processes.
4) Create a suitable /usr/local/etc/sfs/sfsrwsd_config file, e.g.:
Export /root/sfsroot / R
Export /usr/src /src R
Export /usr/ports /ports R
Export /local/baz /local/baz
5) Add any local filesystems that are being exported to /etc/exports, and
export them to localhost, e.g.:
/root/sfsroot 127.0.0.1
/usr/src /usr/ports 127.0.0.1
/local/baz 127.0.0.1
NOTA BENE: any directories exported via SFS must follow all NFS
export rules, i.e. no symlinks in the exported directory pathname,
the exported path must be absolute to the physical mount point. If
you want to export /usr/ports via SFS, and /usr/ports is really a
symlink to /vol/h0/ports, you have to use:
Export /vol/h0/ports /ports
not:
Export /usr/ports /ports
Similarly, /etc/exports must reference /vol/h0/ports rather than
/usr/ports.
6) Make an empty directory structure mirroring your SFS namespace, e.g.:
# mkdir /root/sfsroot
# mkdir /root/sfsroot/src
# mkdir /root/sfsroot/ports
# mkdir /root/sfsroot/local
# mkdir /root/sfsroot/local/baz
7) Reboot. You should now have a working SFS server. sfssd will emit a
message into /var/log/messages like the following:
sfsrwsd: serving :
From a DIFFERENT machine with an SFS client already installed
and running, attempt to access /sfs/:. Note
that the SFS client machine will have to be able to connect to
TCP port 4 on the SFS server machine. Note also that you must
test your SFS server from a separate SFS client machine to avoid
deadlock issues; see the SFS documentation for more details.
If your server setup has been successful, the client machine
should be able to see src, ports, and local/baz in the root
directory of the SFS mount.
8) Consider using your machine's firewall to restrict who has access
to your SFS server by restricting access to TCP port 4.
Advanced SFS server configurations, such as user authentication,
is outside the scope of this document. Read the full SFS documentation
for details.
*** SFS configuration files:
[ The following section is taken nearly verbatim from
. ]
SFS comprises a number of programs, many of which have configuration
files. All programs look for configuration files in two directories--first
/usr/local/etc/sfs, then, if they don't find the file there, in
/usr/local/share/sfs.
This port installs reasonable defaults in /usr/local/share/sfs
for all configuration files except sfsrwsd_config. On particular
hosts where you wish to change the default behavior, you can override
the default configuration file by creating a new file of the same
name in /usr/local/etc/sfs.
The sfs_config file contains system-wide configuration parameters
for most of the programs comprising SFS. Note that
/usr/local/share/sfs/sfs_config is always parsed, even if
/usr/local/etc/sfs/sfs_config exists. Options in
/usr/local/etc/sfs/sfs_config simply override the defaults in
/usr/local/share/sfs/sfs_config. For the other configuration files,
a file in /usr/local/etc/sfs/ entirely overrides the version in
/usr/local/share/sfs/.
If you are running a server, you will need to create an sfsrwsd_config
file to tell SFS what directories to export, and possibly an
sfsauthd_config if you wish to share the database of user public
keys across several file servers.
The sfssd_config file contains information about which protocols
and services to route to which daemons on an SFS server, including
support for backwards compatibility across several versions of SFS.
You probably don't need to change this file.
sfs_srp_params contains some cryptographic parameters for retrieving
keys securely over the network with a passphrase (as with the sfskey
add usr@server command).
sfscd_config contains information about extensions to the SFS
protocol and which kinds of file servers to route to which daemons.
You almost certainly should not touch this file unless you are
developing new versions of the SFS software.
Note that configuration command names are case-insensitive in all
configuration files (though the arguments are not).