[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS / NFS & chown

[cwjordanoi at cox.net]

Usually by default nfs maps root requests to the nobody account for  security reasons. You may change that behavior with the -maproot option.  Perhaps you need to set that?

Chris Jordan

---- Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com> wrote: 
> The client system accessing the NFS share, has root access, rw.
> What happens, is I can't chown to any of this client users, receiving a permission to chown denied.
> If I have user "jim" on the client with uid=1324, I exepct to chown my jim files from the client,
> and from the storage view, see these files with just uid=1324, no matter if I have this user
> on the storage.
> I just mounted the share as root, and started replicating a local filesystem into the NFS/ZFS share,
> through a "find . -print | cpio -pcduvm /mnt", where many different permissions/owners reside.
> What's wrong?
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> Da: Lucas Van Tol
> A: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Data: 18 giugno 2011 9.44.37 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS / NFS &chown
> Could you just chown to UID's; or from a system with root access to the share?
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> From: gbulfon at sonicle.com
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:01:21 +0200
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS / NFS &chown
> Hi, maybe a silly question.
> Sharing a ZFS volume, I can't chown to client users. I obviously don't want to map each and every client user id into the storage.....what am I missing?
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