EpsFS Extended Permisions Set File System

##This are just a bunch of side notes - not a doc

Mounting the fs

run: $groups <usename>

if you don't see fuse there, add it using:

$sudo addgroup <username> fuse

To remove a user from a group use:

sudo deluser tim fuse

restart your session $ cinnamon-session-exit

Dont forget to show off how secure the mount operation is:

not even the root user can access the filesystem mounted by my user even though the root has files inside my filesystem on which he has permissions (ubeer cool, right ?!?! ) i.e. any other user trying to access my mount point will see the following permission set: d????????? ? ? ? ? ?

If you want other users to acces the filesystem, make sure you edit the fuse config in /etc

Connecting to my custom ssh server:

ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 8022 #localhost - not really cool

ssh user@192.168.1.x -p 8022 #cooler but you have to setup port fwd on the router I guess I should get back to finish implementing this thing
USER MANAGEMENT - posix standard way sudo useradd <uname>

sudo passwd <uname>

each user should consider /epsfs/home as their homedir; update that in /etc/passwd when creatin' a new user

use awk to get the available sys users and uids awk -F":" '{ print $1 ";" $3 }' /etc/passwd

if your system ever crashes, unmount the mountpoint using: fusermount -u <mount_dir>
i linked the bash_history file to /dev/null just to make user's history more secure ln /dev/null .bash_history -sf
This is a naive way used to figure out which users are connected via ssh (The best way would be to make that custom ssh server work and filter all the requests ...)

netstat -atpn|grep ssh

REMEMBER: the fs uses this utility so the user mounting the file_system must have the ability to run sudo commands whithout being required to enter a password (use sudo visudo to make the user a demi-god-root user :) )

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EpsFS Extended Permisions Set File System