On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:16:50PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > What is thje rationale for this? And who would want to move it at > > compile time, not at run time? > It all has to do with statd not running as root... > > During the rpm installation, a state directory is created and > the uid/gid are set to rpcuser id. When statd fires up, those > uid/gids are obtained and used to set the process's uid/gid so > the daemon does not run as root.. > > The default NFS state directory is /var/lib/nfs. Since other > processes, like mountd and exportfs, read and write to that, > we don't want to muck around with its ownership. So a statd > directory is created and the ownership of that directory > is mucked with. Shouldn't the configure option then be about running statd non-root and all things required for it? E.g. do the set*uid, creating the new dir with the right owner and permissions, and using it? -- 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
