CentOS SSHFS Howto

I have a need to remotely mount a file system over the Internet. I'd like to do so without doing a VPN tunnel and all the encryption myself. So, I gave sshfs a shot and turn's out, it's super easy. Here's how on CentOS:

# Install EPEL
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# Install sshfs
yum -y install sshfs fuse

# Load FUSE Kernel Module
modprobe fuse

# Mount remote file system.
mkdir /mnt/sshfs/
sshfs root@my.server.com:/export/opt/ /mnt/sshfs/

Now if you want to get fancy, you can push your ssh key and auto mount on boot, like this:

# Push identity
ssh-copy-id user@my.server.com

# Edit /etc/fstab and add:
root@my.server.com:/export/opt/ /mnt/sshfs fuse.sshfs defaults,noauto,user 0 0

# Mount it up
mount /mnt/sshfs/

Using IPTables to Blackhole Large Set's of IP's

I found a host where I was getting a bunch of POST's in my apache server log files which looked to be malicious. I wanted to go through and just block all IP's which were trying to post to my web server, since I don't have anything but static content on it. So, I came up with this little one liner:

grep POST /var/log/apache2/*log* | perl -lane 'print $1 if (/^.*?:(.*?)\s/)'|sort | uniq | perl -lane 'system "iptables -A INPUT -s @F[0] -j DROP"'

This is useful for any group of IP's you wish to black-hole.