Users home directories in NFS with root_squash and k5login file

[Remi FERRAND]

Hi everyone,

I'm using an NFS v4 export (sec=sys with root_squash enabled) to store my users home directories.
I'd like to use a ".k5login" file for a particular user.

My users are authenticating throw SSH using GSS-API, and user "bob at EXAMPLE.ORG" is trying to connect to account "alice at EXAMPLE.ORG".
In Alice's home I do have a k5login file (something like /nfs/home/alice/.k5login) with the following content:

```
alice at EXAMPLE.ORG
bob at EXAMPLE.ORG
```

When bob tries to connect as alice, this does not work (I was expecting this to fail).
I've tried to set `k5login_directory` to a local directory in my server's krb5.conf and everything works as expected.

The problem seems that the ssh daemon can't access /nfs/home/alice/.k5login because of the root_squash and the /nfs/home/alice directory permissions (0750).


I'm wondering what is the recommended way to use k5login files with users home stored in NFS filesystems with root_squash option enabled ?
Is that even possible (how ssh daemon can access a k5login file inside an NFS share with root_squash) ?

Thanks

Cheers

Rémi