secure-S3FS

A secure Amazon S3 Based File System

Prerequisites

Software	Version
openssl	1.0.2o
automake	latest
pkg-config	latest

Setup for Secure-S3FS

• Create an AWS Account if you don’t already have one refer to AWS Documentation https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/
• Navigate to S3 bucket from AWS console
• Create a bucket (remember bucket name has to be unique)
• Acquire your credentials from AWS account (IAM)

Enter S3 identity and credential in a file ~/.passwd-s3fs

    echo ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY > ~/.passwd-s3fs
    chmod 600 ~/.passwd-s3fs

Clone the secure-S3FS and configure it

    git clone https://github.com/Joy57/secure-S3FS.git
    cd secure-S3FS
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

Troubleshoot for Mac

If you get the error:

./configure: line 4965: syntax error near unexpected token common_lib_checking, ./configure: line 4965: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(common_lib_checking, fuse >= ${min_fuse_version} libcurl >= 7.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.6 )'

Make sure the following packages are installed.

    brew install automake
    brew install pkg-config
    brew install libssl-dev

and then run

    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

Run with the bucket you created earlier

    mkdir /path/to/mountpoint

    s3fs mybucket /path/to/mountpoint -o passwd_file=~/.passwd-s3fs

    cd /path/to/mountpoint

Note to change password for encryption/decryption in s3fs.

There's a file in the src folder which is called secret.txt. Open it and change it to the password you'd like.