Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 08:50:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Craig Yoshioka <craigyk@me.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with chown as root on nfs4 export Message-ID: <1289655788.875148.1399035058180.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <892DB38A-0F20-439F-828A-27F195C8EEBD@me.com>
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Craig Yoshioka wrote: > > > From what I was told, trying a uid string is only a fallback > > scenario for the client. Instead, it turns out root (uid 0) was > > improperly triggering a conditional that mapped it to nobody on > > maproot exports. I just tried a fixed version and it works now. > > Nevermind, I spoke too soon. I hadn’t properly cleared the effect of > setting: > > echo N >/sys/module/nfs/parameters/nfs4_disable_idmapping > > but just to confirm, setting the above in linux clients does cause > their SETATTR calls to pass the username instead of the uid. > Unfortunately, this setting is not the default. > Could you please test the attached patch? After booting a kernel with the patch, you will need to: sysctl vfs.nfsd.enable_stringtouid=1 With the patch + sysctl, the server should accept the numeric string. If you can't test the patch, please email me, since I need to get it tested quickly to get it in 9.3. Thanks for reporting this, rick > > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> 3. I can’t rule out misconfiguration. but I’ve configured as > >>> identically as I could, and tried a lot of small vairations. > >>> these > >>> are my current settings (the pipefs settings are the distro > >>> defaults) > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >>> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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