Allowing permission using S3FS bucket directory for other users

Question

I'm having problem using S3FS. I'm using

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ /usr/bin/s3fs --version
Amazon Simple Storage Service File System 1.71

And I have the password file installed in the /usr/share/myapp/s3fs-password with 600 permission.

I have succeeded mounting the S3 bucket.

sudo /usr/bin/s3fs -o allow_other -opasswd_file=/usr/share/myapp/s3fs-password -ouse_cache=/tmp mybucket.example.com /bucket

And I have user_allow_other enabled in the /etc/fuse.conf

When I tried creating a file in the bucket as root it worked.

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ sudo su
root@ip-x-x-x-x:/home/ubuntu# cd /bucket
root@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket# echo 'Hello World!' > test-`date +%s`.txt
root@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket# ls
test-1373359118.txt

I checked the bucket mybucket.example.com's content and the file was successfully created.

But I was having difficulties writing into the directory /bucket as different user.

root@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket# exit
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ cd /bucket
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ echo 'Hello World!' > test-`date +%s`.txt
-bash: test-1373359543.txt: Permission denied

I desperately tried chmod-ing to 777 the test-1373359118.txt. And I can write into the file

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ sudo chmod 777 test-1373359118.txt
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ echo 'Test' > test-1373359118.txt
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ cat test-1373359118.txt
Test

Funnily, I could create a directory inside the bucket, set the chmod to 777, and write a file there.

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ sudo mkdir -m 1777 test
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ ls
test  test-1373359118.txt
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket$ cd test
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket/test$ echo 'Hello World!' > test-`date +%s`.txt
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket/test$ ls
test-1373360059.txt
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:/bucket/test$ cat test-1373360059.txt
Hello World

But then I tried

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ sudo chmod 777 /mybucket
chmod: changing permissions of '/mybucket': Input/output error

It didn't work.

Initially I was thinking to use this /bucket directory to store large and rarely accessed files from my LAMP stacks located several EC2 machines. (I think it's suitable enough to use this without making a special handling library using AWS PHP SDK, but that's not the point.)

Because of that reason, I can settle using a directory inside the /mybucket to store the files. But I'm just curious if there is a way to allow entire /mybucket to other users?

Answer 1

Permission was an issue with older versions of S3FS. Upgrade to latest version to get it working.

As already stated in the question itself and other answers, While mounting you will have to pass the following parameters: -o allow_other

Example:

s3fs mybucket:/ mymountlocation/ -o allow_other 

Also, before doing this ensure the following is enabled in /etc/fuse.conf:

user_allow_other

It is disabled by default ;)