I have a kerberized NFS4 setup using EL7.4 that has been working for quite a long time. Today I started having trouble with permissions from some clients. I haven't been able to figure out what changed. It appears though that some requests are being sent as root as so permission to access is denied. $ id uid=22603(orion) gid=22603(orion) groups=22603(orion) ls -l .Xauthority -rw-------. 1 orion orion 130 Nov 27 12:59 .Xauthority $ cat .Xauthority cat: .Xauthority: Operation not permitted I tried reverting to sec=sys, but still had problems. Here is a tshark -V decode of the open request: Remote Procedure Call, Type:Call XID:0x1379e0da Fragment header: Last fragment, 236 bytes 1... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... = Last Fragment: Yes .000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1110 1100 = Fragment Length: 236 XID: 0x1379e0da (326754522) Message Type: Call (0) RPC Version: 2 Program: NFS (100003) Program Version: 4 Procedure: COMPOUND (1) Credentials Flavor: AUTH_UNIX (1) Length: 40 Stamp: 0x00418e08 Machine Name: client length: 17 contents: client fill bytes: opaque data UID: 0 GID: 0 Auxiliary GIDs (0) Verifier Flavor: AUTH_NULL (0) Length: 0 Network File System, Ops(5): PUTFH, OPEN, GETFH, ACCESS, GETATTR [Program Version: 4] [V4 Procedure: COMPOUND (1)] Tag: <EMPTY> length: 0 contents: <EMPTY> minorversion: 0 Operations (count: 5): PUTFH, OPEN, GETFH, ACCESS, GETATTR Opcode: PUTFH (22) filehandle length: 32 [hash (CRC-32): 0x6fd1a280] decode type as: unknown filehandle: 01000681c370d9f027664f269d1025f51329966086b50420... Opcode: OPEN (18) seqid: 0x00000000 share_access: OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_READ (1) share_deny: OPEN4_SHARE_DENY_NONE (0) clientid: 0x69531c5aaefd36d7 owner: <DATA> length: 24 contents: <DATA> Open Type: OPEN4_NOCREATE (0) Claim Type: CLAIM_NULL (0) Name: .Xauthority length: 11 contents: .Xauthority fill bytes: opaque data Opcode: GETFH (10) Opcode: ACCESS (3), [Check: RD MD XT XE] Check access: 0x2d .... ...1 = 0x01 READ: allowed? .... .1.. = 0x04 MODIFY: allowed? .... 1... = 0x08 EXTEND: allowed? ..1. .... = 0x20 EXECUTE: allowed? Opcode: GETATTR (9) Attr mask[0]: 0x0010011a (TYPE, CHANGE, SIZE, FSID, FILEID) reqd_attr: TYPE (1) reqd_attr: CHANGE (3) reqd_attr: SIZE (4) reqd_attr: FSID (8) reco_attr: FILEID (20) Attr mask[1]: 0x00b0a23a (MODE, NUMLINKS, OWNER, OWNER_GROUP, RAWDEV, SPACE_USED, TIME_ACCESS, TIME_METADATA, TIME_MODIFY, MOUNTED_ON_FILEID) reco_attr: MODE (33) reco_attr: NUMLINKS (35) reco_attr: OWNER (36) reco_attr: OWNER_GROUP (37) reco_attr: RAWDEV (41) reco_attr: SPACE_USED (45) reco_attr: TIME_ACCESS (47) reco_attr: TIME_METADATA (52) reco_attr: TIME_MODIFY (53) reco_attr: MOUNTED_ON_FILEID (55) [Main Opcode: OPEN (18)] the server responds with permission denied. Setting no_root_squash allows the file to catted, though not locked. I'm at a loss. Some essentially identical clients work fine, some do not. I've rebooted the server once and the clients many times. 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.48.el7_4.x86_64 -- Orion Poplawski Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.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