On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:48:47PM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote: > On Tuesday, February 04, 2014 01:26:42 PM Steve Dickson wrote: > > > Also rpc.gssd will be run whenever nfs-server.target or nfs-client.target > > > is started. > > > > Why is rpc.gssd started when the nfs server is started? Possibly for secure > > loopback mounts?? > > Isn't this needed for KRB5/NFSv4.1 callbacks? I seem to remember needing this > on the server as well as the client, lest I get the frequent "gss upcall > timeout" issue. At least on Fedora that's how it's been for me. It's only for KRB5/NFSv4.0 callbacks, actually. Since minor version >=1 callbacks use the client-established credentials (and the client-established tcp connection). --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
