Protocols are a set of rules or standards that define the communication between devices on a network.
​The ssh
Protocol​
​The scp
Protocol​
​The nfs
Protocol​
A process is a running program at a particular instant of time.
The process refers to an opening of a Web Browser or any other visible program or action for the user, but this term also includes programs that are running in the background waiting to be called by the system. Those programs can be services that offer remote connection, sending of mail, or translation of IPs into readable URLs.
These services are identified by a number of ports defined by the Assigned Numbers RFC.
The configuration of services is in /etc/services
and includes the name, the port that defines the service, and which transport protocol is used (UDP or TCP) for each one.
This protocol enables secure connection to the SSH server on a remote machine.
Installation of the package
By default, in CentOS 7, the SSH package comes installed, but if not, please run:
yum install openssh openssh-server openssh-clients openssl-libs
It installs the openssh package to enable SSH as a server and as a client.
If you need additional information about yum commands, you can visit this link.
The default configuration file
The default configuration file and settings for the SSHD daemon is in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
.
cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.ori
This creates a copy of the original configuration file in order to prevent damage or mistakes during a custom configuration.
Then, you can customize the configuration in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config
file with these options:
Port 22PermitRootLogin without-passwordPermitRootLogin yesPasswordAuthentication yesForwardAgent yesForwardX11 yes
Furthermore, to have the ability to run the protocol with the name of the servers such as ssh server_name
, create a file ~/.ssh/config
, and customize it with:
Host shortcut_nameHostName 0.1.2.3Port 22User userServerAliveInterval 120IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_key.pem
Then, you will be able to enter the server called shortcut_name
with SSH by using:
ssh shortcut_name
Restart the SSHD service
Once you make the configuration changes, you can save and close the file. For the changes to take effect, you should restart the SSH daemon.
systemctl restart sshd.service
This command is used in case the SSHD service is enabled
. To check the current status of the service, please read more about the status of a service.
Generate an SSH Key
To secure the transmission of information, SSH employs different types of data manipulation techniques that include forms of asymmetrical encryption such as an SSH key.
ssh-keygen
Press Enter
to accept the default location and filename which is ~/.ssh/id_rsa
. Then press Enter
, then Enter
again to not set a passphrase when prompted.
Make sure the SSH key was successfully created by checking the encrypted content at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
.
This file must have the permission 600. To check it please run ls -AhlF ~/.ssh
.
Finally, to copy the SSH key to a server, please run ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
This protocol allows files to be copied to, from, or between different hosts. It uses SSH for data transfer and provides the same authentication and same level of security as SSH.
Copy the file remote_file.txt
from a remote host to the local host
scp [email protected]:remote_file.txt /some/local/directory
Copy the file local_file.txt
from the local host to a remote host directory
scp local_file.txt [email protected]:/some/remote/directory
Copy the directory local_directory
from the local host to a remote host's directory remote_directory
scp -r local_directory [email protected]:/some/remote/directory/remote_directory
Copy the file fr1.txt
from remote host rh1
to remote host rh2
scp [email protected]:/some/remote/directory/fr1.txt [email protected]:/some/remote/directory/
Copy multiple files from a local directory to a remote host home directory
scp one_file.txt another_file.txt [email protected]:
To set up NFS mounts
, we will need at least two Linux/Unix machines. Here we will be using two servers.
NFS Server: server.org with IP-192.XXX.0.100
NFS Client: client.org with IP-192.XXX.0.101
Configure export directory
For sharing a directory with NFS, we need to make an entry in the /etc/exports
configuration file. Let's create a new directory named nfsshare
in the /
partition of the server.
Then, we need to make an entry in /etc/exports
and restart the services to make our directory shareable in the network.
mkdir /nfsshare​vi /etc/exports/nfsshare 192.XXX.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash)​service autofs restart
It displays a directory in the /
partition named "nfsshare" which is being shared with client IP "192.XXX.0.101" with read and write privileges. You can also use the hostname of a server.
Mount a shared directory on an NSF client
To mount a directory in our server to access it locally, we need to find out what shares are available on the remote server or NFS Server with showmount
.
showmount -e 192.XXX.0.100Export list for 192.XXX.0.100:/nfsshare 192.XXX.0.101
This command shows that a directory named nfsshare
is available at "192.XXX.0.100" to share with your server.
To mount a shared NFS directory permanently, we can use following mount
command:
vi /etc/fstab192.XXX.0.100:/nfsshare /mnt nfs defaults 0 0​service autofs restart
With vi /etc/fstab
, we are setting the IP:name_directory
to be mounted, and it will be mounted on /mnt
. You can verify it with mount | grep nfs
.