On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:11 PM, <thomas.wunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> By the looks of your /etc/fstab entry, the system (root) will try to >> mount /mnt/net automatically. You could try adding the "noauto" >> option and then manually issuing the mount command as the user. (Or >> use automount?) >> K.C. > I'm pretty sure that it doesn't try to automatically mount the share on > startup since there is no log entry that would indicate such an attempt. > I already tried to do the mount as a user (which is authenticated via kerberos > such that there is a valid ticket for that user) the logs (that i have posted) > are showing what comes out of it. If I try to do the mount without the fstab- > entry (i.e. mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5p dnsdhcp:/ /mnt/net) it is being > rejected on the grounds that only root can perform a mount. 'sudo' doesn't > work currently (i've got some problems with my PAM config for sudo) so I > haven't had any chance to try it out... > > I've already set up automount but it actually does exactly the same as if I > ran mount manually as described above. > > I'm totally confused because I don't understand what people like > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfsv4/5893 > might have done to perform a mount with normal user privileges. If it was > really mandatory to be root (as stated by Andy Adamson in the other message) > then I wouldn't really understand why they should have implemented the uid > passing using that pipefs file.... Hello Tom, To allow non-root users to do the mount, add the "user" option to the entry in /etc/fstab. Then the user with uid 10002 should be able to kinit and then mount. (Note that in this case, there is no need for the "-n" option to rpc.gssd.) K.C. -- 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
