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Date:      Thu, 01 May 2014 19:53:59 -0700
From:      Craig Yoshioka <craigyk@me.com>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with chown as root on nfs4 export
Message-ID:  <892DB38A-0F20-439F-828A-27F195C8EEBD@me.com>
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> =46rom 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=92t 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.


>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> 3. I can=92t rule out misconfiguration.  but I=92ve 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)
>>>=20
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