[Container-tools] New and improved vagrant-sshfs

[Dusty Mabe]

On 03/29/2016 06:11 AM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> So I've been told that asking users to forward an ssh-agent or provide
>> a password to get synced folders working isn't good enough :( 
>>
>> Fair enough. I've done some research and found out how we can achieve
>> the mount without any of that (see [1]). 
> 
> Nice
> 
>> I have some code ready and I'm hoping to cast a wide net to get kinks
>> worked out before I release. Can I please get everyone to try it out:
> 
> I'll check it out asap
> 

Please do! :)

>> First uninstall the existing vagrant-sshfs plugin that you may have
>> installed:
>>
>> ```
>> $ vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-sshfs
>> Uninstalling the 'vagrant-sshfs' plugin...
>> ```
>>
>> Then install a custom build that I have done:
>>
>> ```
>> $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-sshfs --plugin-source https://dustymabe.fedorapeople.org/gemrepo/
>> ```
>>
>> And test it out by adding a line to your Vagrantfile:
>>
>> ```
>> config.vm.synced_folder "/path/on/host", "/path/on/guest", type: "sshfs"
>> ```
> 
> What's are the prerequisites on Windows? 

Simply that openssh is installed, but we do not need an ssh daemon
running. We are using the sftp-server binary directly, which is
usually bundled with the ssh daemon.

Dusty