In working with the new idmapper, it became very apparent that keys created from bad id mapping were very persistent and were not easy disposed of. Unlike with rpc.idmapd, to git rid of bad id mapping one just needed to restart the daemon. So I've added some functionality to the nfsidmap command that will allow admins to: - remove all the keys on the keyring. - remove a particular key from the keying. The intention is to allow admins a way to clean up the id name space when name resolution mechanisms, like NIS or LDAP, fail and leave a large number (or small number) of id mapping pointing to nobody. Note, for the second patch to work, there need to be a small kernel patch that will change the per-key permissions to allow root to revoke them. Steve Dickson (2): nfsidmap: Allow all keys to clear on the keyring nfsidmap: Allow a particular key to be revoked. utils/nfsidmap/nfsidmap.c | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- utils/nfsidmap/nfsidmap.man | 27 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 1.7.7 -- 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