On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:53 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > Steve, can you elaborate? Do pure clients never need idmap? > With F17 we moved to the keyring based ID mapping, which eliminates > the need for the rpc.idmapd daemon to be started on the client side. > > Here is how it works... > > With NFS v4 traffic, the kernel will receives a uid string of > "steved@xxxxxxxxxx" that needs to be translated into a UID integer. > So the kernel will do a keyring upcall to the nfsidmap binary. > The upcall is enabled with the existence of the > /etc/request-key.d/id_resolver.conf file. > > The nfsidmap binary then converts the "steved@xxxxxxxxxx" string > into the 3606 uid. That mapping is cached in the keyring > which makes available the next time its needed. > > The nfsidmap(5) man page explains how entires on that keyring > can be manipulated. > > I hope this helps... Thanks, but how about NFSv3 traffic? F17 clients will presumably still need to interact with NFSv3 servers. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
