On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Spelic wrote: > Hello all > we recently moved to nfsv4 from v3. > > I'm currently using idmapd and not kerberos. > > I noticed that now, with idmapd (and with idmapd is the only way I know > for configuring nfsv4 for now), users that are not known at server side > are squashed to nobody / nogroup (65534 / 65534). > And a chown by root from the client fails if the user is not known at > server side. > > That's a problem... now we need ldap everywhere... > > We were often using NFS for exporting some diskspace to machines on an > as-needed basis, > so this new behaviour complicates the things greatly for us :-/ > It's almost easier to setup iSCSI targets now :-(( > > Is there a way to have nfsv4 with the behaviour of users of nfsv3, that > is, using numeric IDs instead of the names, like: "nfsserver, don't care > if you don't know the user, just give me the numeric ID for the file..." No. That is not allowed by the spec. Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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
