webfused

Reference implementation of webfuse daemon.

Build and run

To install dependecies, see below.

cd webfused
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./webfused -f webfused.conf

Config file

version = { major = 1, minor = 0 }

server:
{
    vhost_name = "localhost"
    port = 8080

    tls:
    {
       certificate = "/etc/webfused/cert.pem"

       key = "/etc/webfused/key.pem"
    }

    document_root = "/var/www"
}

authentication:
(
    {
        provider = "file"
        settings:
        {
            file = "/etc/webfused/passwd"
        }
    }
)

filesystems:
(
    {name = "test",  mount_point = "/tmp/webfused" }
)

log:
{
    provider: "syslog"
    level: "warning"
    settings:
    {
        ident = "webfused"
        facility = "daemon"
        log_pid = true
    }
}

user:
{
    name  = "webfused"
    group = "webfused"
}

Version

The version sections specifies the schema version of the config file. Currently, there is only one schema version defined: 1.0

Server

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
vhostname	string	localhost	Name of the virtual host
port	int	8080	Port number of server
document_root	string	-empty-	Path of HTTP files
tls	object	-empty-	see below

When document_root is omitted, no HTTP files are served.

TLS

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
certificate	string	-empty-	Path to servers own certificate (.pem file)
key	string	-empty-	Path to servers own private key (.pem file)

TLS is only activated, when both, certificate and key are specified. Otherwise, plain websockes without TLS are used.

Authentication

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
provider	string	-required-	Name of the authentication provider (see below)
settings	object	-empty-	Provider specific settings (see below)

Currently, only one provider is specified:

• file: file based authentication

File Authenticaton Provider

Allows authentication against a file containing username and password.

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
file	string	-empty-	Path to the authentication file

Filesystems

Contains a list of file systems that can be provided by webfuse providers.

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
name	string	-required-	Name of the filesystem
mount_point	string	-required-	Local path to mount the filesystem

Log

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
provider	string	-required-	Name of log provider (see below)
level	string	-required-	Log level (see below)
settings	object	-empty-	Provider specific settings (see below)

The following log levels are supported:

• none: diabled logging
• fatal: log only fatal errors
• error: log all kind of errors
• warn: log errors and warnings
• info: log info messages, warnings and errors
• debug: log debug and info messages as well as warnings and errors
• all: log all kind of messages

Currently, the following providers are available:

• stderr: logs to console error output
• syslog: logs to syslog

Stderr Logger

This logger does not provide any settings.

Syslog Logger

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
ident	string	webfused	Syslog ident (see syslog documentation)
facility	string	daemon	Syslog facility (see syslog documentation)
log_pid	bool	false	Add process ID to log messages

User

Setting	Type	Default value	Description
name	string	-required-	Name of the user to switch to.
group	string	-required-	Name of the group to switch to.

Webfuse daemon will not run as root. If started as root, webfuse daemon tries to switch to user and group provided in config file.

Note: user and group are not switched, when webfuse daemon is not started as root.

Dependencies

• webfuse
  • libfuse
  • libwebsockets
  • jansson
• openssl
• libconfig
• linux-pam
• Google Test (Test only)

Installing dependencies

libfuse

To install libfuse, meson is needed. Please refer to meson quick guide for setup instructions.

wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/archive/fuse-3.9.0.tar.gz -O fuse.tar.gz
tar -xf fuse.tar.gz
cd libfuse-fuse-3.9.0
mkdir .build
cd .build
meson ..
ninja
sudo ninja install

libwebsockets

wget https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/archive/v3.2.0.tar.gz -O libwebsockets.tar.gz
tar -xf libwebsockets.tar.gz
cd libwebsockets-3.2.0
mkdir .build
cd .build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

jansson

wget https://github.com/akheron/jansson/archive/v2.12.tar.gz -O jansson.tar.gz
tar -xf jansson.tar.gz
cd jansson-2.12
mkdir .build
cd .build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

openssl

sudo apt update
sudo install openssl libssl-dev

webfuse

wget https://github.com/falk-werner/webfuse/archive/v0.2.0.tar.gz -O webfuse.tar.gz
tar -xf webfuse.tar.gz
cd webfuse-0.2.0
mkdir .build
cd .build
cmake -DWITHOUT_TESTS=ON ..
make
sudo make install

libconfig

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libconfig-dev

linux-pam

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libpam0g-dev

GoogleTest

Installation of GoogleTest is optional webfuse library, but required to compile tests.

wget -O gtest-1.10.0.tar.gz https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.10.0.tar.gz
tar -xf gtest-1.10.0.tar.gz
cd googletest-release-1.10.0
mkdir .build
cd .build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install