From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Change default behavior when "sec=" is not specified by user Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:38:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20090901163846.GJ22846@fieldses.org> References: <20090901143012.3978.11441.stgit@matisse.1015granger.net> <20090901150545.GA22846@fieldses.org> <7C5C14D9-F315-4DF8-A2F4-C7F0981AC968@oracle.com> <20090901151830.GC22846@fieldses.org> <18678BB3-52C6-4376-BBD1-50B8947BAAC7@oracle.com> <20090901160914.GG22846@fieldses.org> <73E8EAAF-9164-4F78-A9D4-1CC86A6A6255@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:33756 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751508AbZIAQiq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:38:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <73E8EAAF-9164-4F78-A9D4-1CC86A6A6255@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:09 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> And, sure, that'd be OK with me, and would probably be better than >> adding another exception, so I'm OK with skipping #3. (We definitely >> shouldn't omit #2, though.) > > Seems straightforward enough, but... Why are we doing this again? It > still seems like non-standard behavior. Are we simply attempting to > avoid the case where folks would get the "nobody" behavior unexpectedly > because of a mountd bug, or is there more to it? That's all there is to it. As I said: >>>>>> 2. In the absence of sec=, we should probably *not* choose >>>>>> AUTH_NULL. (All mountd's before 1.1.3 list AUTH_NULL first on >>>>>> the returned list, so users with older servers may wonder why a >>>>>> client upgrade is making files they create suddenly be owned by >>>>>> nobody.) http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=125089022306281&w=2 > I'm just thinking of what the documenting comment might say, and perhaps > some explanation added to nfs(5). "As a special case, to work around bugs in some older servers, the client will never automatically negotiate auth_null; if auth_null is desired, an explicit "sec=null" on the commandline is required." Or something like that. --b.