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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:41:12 +0300
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfssvc not available or version mismatch (nfsv4 client)
Message-ID:  <86ipy0phuf.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GVijaPKONJk8wyovMsoqidvFpd%2Bkkc0zjxKBm@mail.gmail.com> (Ivan Voras's message of "Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:02:21 %2B0100")
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:

> On 7 January 2011 20:15, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I was thinking about the practical scenario where users share a server
> - currently, as there's AFAIK no facility for remapping UIDs in
> FreeBSD, UIDs and usernames have to match on all machines. Will this
> change with NFSv4?

We had one, mount_umap(8). I've used it to remap

  0 (root) -> 1001 (foo)

for an NFS mount a year ago on NetBSD. It was pretty stable there.



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