NFSv4 and root access

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Tue Jun 3 12:27:42 EDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:57 +0000, Jaap wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:08:29 -0500, Matt Garman wrote:
> 
> > ... on my nfs client machines (which is several dozen), I
> > haven't even touched the /etc/idmapd.conf file.
> 
> That's interesting. However, my experience is that if I don't run 
> rpc.idmapd on the clients with at least "Domain = <mydomain>" in 
> idmapd.conf, the files and directories in my mounted exports are all 
> owned by nobody.nogroup. How do you prevent that?

Hi
Confirmed. rpc.idmapd has to be running at both ends. Maybe there are
other ways to do the upcalls?
Cheers,
Steve



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