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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2017 10:11:08 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: more default uid/gid for NFS in mountd
Message-ID:  <20170514071108.GK1188@zxy.spb.ru>
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On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 01:12:11AM +0000, Rick Macklem wrote:

> >> It is also the case that mountd.c doesn't look "nobody" up in the password database
> >> to set the default. It would be nice to do this, but it could result in the mountd daemon
> >> getting "stuck" during a boot waiting for an unresponsive LDAP service or similar.
> >> Does doing this sound like a good idea?
> >
> >This is (stuck at boot) already do for case of using NIS and nfsuserd.
> There is a difference here. nfsuserd mpas between uid/names, so it can't work
> without the password database.
> mountd can work without the password database, so I held off on doing this for now.
> 
> >I am regular see this for case of DNS failed at boot.
> >You offer don't impair current behaviour.
> As an aside, if you have the critical entries in the local files (/etc/hosts, /etc/passwd,
> /etc/group) and then tell the libraries to search these first in /etc/nsswitch.conf, then
> you usually avoid this problem.

Same as for 'nobody' for mountd?

> Thanks for the comments, rick
> 

Thanks!



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