[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS4 users

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

If you don't use a unifying authentication system such as LDAP or
NIS+, look up the root_squash and no_root_squash NFS share options.
I'm not sure if this will fix your problems, I've used pure NFSv4 most
of the time.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:29, Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com> wrote:
> Hi, is there any way to let NFS4 server not require the same users of the client to exist on the server??
> I noticed that the root access on an NFS4 server, let me chmod on any user who's id exists on the server,
> wether it is same name or not. Any chmod to a uid not existent on the server, is changed to nobody...
> For example, I shared a filesystem, and filled it with an original filesystem, through NFS3.
> If I mount it with vers=3, I get all the correct permissions from the client view, wether they exist or not
> on the server.
> If I mount the same share with vers=4, I get correct permissions only for files with uid existent on the
> server (even if different names), all the others files get the user nobody............
> I want to use NFS4, because I noticed that locking management is much better, and cyrus does not
> complain. But this permission limitation is annoying.
> Any idea?
> Gabriele.
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