Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:12:21 +0100
From: Spelic <spelic@shiftmail.org>
Subject: NFSv4 behaviour on unknown users
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Hello all
we recently moved to nfsv4 from v3.

I'm currently using idmapd and not kerberos.

I noticed that now, with idmapd (and with idmapd is the only way I know 
for configuring nfsv4 for now), users that are not known at server side 
are squashed to nobody / nogroup  (65534 / 65534).
And a chown by root from the client fails if the user is not known at 
server side.

That's a problem... now we need ldap everywhere...

We were often using NFS for exporting some diskspace to machines on an 
as-needed basis,
so this new behaviour complicates the things greatly for us :-/
It's almost easier to setup iSCSI targets now :-((

Is there a way to have nfsv4 with the behaviour of users of nfsv3, that 
is, using numeric IDs instead of the names, like: "nfsserver, don't care 
if you don't know the user, just give me the numeric ID for the file..."

Thank you