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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:15:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfssvc not available or version mismatch (nfsv4 client)
Message-ID:  <490948409.256117.1294427731921.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <ig7oif$a9t$1@dough.gmane.org>

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> On 01/07/11 15:47, Rick Macklem wrote:
> 
> > What it needs to know is the domain name that you are using
> > for bind, etc since that is appended to user and group names
> > that go on the wire. For example:
> > - If the machine's name is nfs-client.cis.uoguelph.ca as shown
> >    by the hostname command...
> >    --> the domain name is cis.uoguelph.ca
> >    then the user rick will go on the wire as rick@cis.uoguelph.ca
> 
> That's nice - so finally no UIDs over the wire? Or is it only for
> logins?
> 
Well, no UIDs on the wire inside the NFSv4 RPCs. Unfortunately, if
you are using AUTH_SYS, there are still UIDs in the RPC header. But
if you use krb5 then, yes, no UIDs on the wire.

rick


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