README
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cmd-localfs
Prototype of remote commands with access to local directory
Setting up
You need Docker.
Build and run the server
The server daemon needs to run in Docker. You can build and run it with make:
$ make build run-server
Running the client
To quickly test, you can connect using make client. This is slightly boring since
you'll always be in this project directory. But it made a binary called cmd-client
that you can use from ANY directory.
$ ./cmd-client localhost:2222
...
Now try running the server on a remote machine and use the same client with it. It's currently
hardcoded to always use the alpine image as the command environment. This defeats the point
a little, but isn't the main point of this prototype.
Limitations
Not sure the best way to configure sshfs (you can see what I approximate as the right options in the code) and I'm not sure how much of this problem is the SFTP server implementation BUT:
Any files you create in the /local mount will be created but not written to and return an error.
For example, touch does make the file but returns an error that it couldn't. Using mv doesn't work.
You can, however, touch a file, ignore the error, then pipe data into the file with output
redirection for example.
Directories