On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:40:36PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 17:30 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:15:45PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:36 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > > > > On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:04 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > Also, while I hope this is the last bug in the mountd's flavor list > > > > > return, it isn't the first--only recently did we even start using real > > > > > information from the export instead of just faking something up. So I > > > > > think it's safest to preserve the historical sec= behavior and give > > > > > users a way to override the negotiation, to cut down on bug reports of > > > > > mount failures on upgrade. > > > > > > > > OK, if this is a recently introduced server problem, then why do we > > > > need to adjust client-side behavior? Trond's response in cases like > > > > this is usually "fix the d*mn server," which you've already done. > > > > > > What is the definition of "recently introduced" here? What is the exact > > > commit that introduced the bug in nfs-utils? > > > > By the way, looking at 'gitk utils/mountd/mountd.c' in my tree: > > > > Originally (didn't look to see how far it goes back), mountd > > returned AUTH_NULL, AUTH_UNIX, in that order. > > 53c5bd65c74, first in 1.0.8, always returns > > AUTH_NULL, AUTH_UNIX, AUTH_GSS_KRB5, AUTH_GSS_KRB5I, > > AUTH_GSS_KRB5P, in that order. > > So all these should work without any trouble. > > > 3c1bb23c037, first in 1.1.3, removes AUTH_NULL from that static > > list. > > Does the server support auth_null security? I didn't think it did. Just off the top of my head, without looking at the code: I believe it treats auth_null rpc calls exactly as if they were auth_sys calls with uid and gid set to the "anonymous" uid and gid. > > > 603017f2c15, first in 1.1.4, derives the psuedoflavor list from > > the export (and introduces the above bug). > > That means the bug is likely to be in Fedora 10 and 11, the latest > Debian and Ubuntu, as well as SLES 11. Sounds like a long list to me... > > > The latest patch, not yet in Steve's repo, fixes the empty flavor > > list. > > For the rest of eternity, mountd is perfect. > > We're getting rid of it? Pfft, some people are such pessimists. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
