On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:49:38 AM EST Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > > I'm unclear on how NFS v4 works. Everything I've read about it in > > the > > past says that you have to set up a user mapping, which is shared by > > the client and the server. And that this is *not* optional, and *is* > > exactly as much of a pain as it sounds. > > I've never done that, as far as I remember. NFS (NFSv4, these days) > mounts in my home network use autofs but I haven't done anything there > either specifically for NFS of any verstion. I remember there was some > weirdness at some point with NFSv4 and I didn't bother with it much. I > had maybe two computers back then so not much of network. But over the > years my NFS mounts just became NFSv4.
Sounds like how my network grew, with more cnc'd machines added. But I was never able the make MFSv4 Just Work for anything for more than the next reboot of one of the machines. Then I discovered sshfs which Just Does anything the user can do, it does not allow root access, but since I am the same user number on all machines, I just put whatever needs root in a users tmp dir then ssh login to that machine, become root and then put the file wherever it needs to go. I can do whatever needs done, to any of my machines, currently 7, from a comfy office chair. > Access for me is by UID. Service is by the kernel driver or in the case > of zfs, the NFS service it provides. I've thought about setting up > Kerberos but haven't gotten around to it. One thing is, I don't know > if Kerberos would work with the NFS service zfs provides? No big deal > either way though. > > > I'm looking at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NFSv4Howto> for > > example and there's discussion back and forth on the page about how > > the user mapping is not working as expected, and try this and that, > > and see this bug.... > > It's a wiki by random people. Last updated in 2017, looks like. Did you > think it has particular relevance to Debian or NFS today? > > . Stay well all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
