Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:39522 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754330AbaCMRZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:25:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:25:31 -0400 To: Simo Sorce Cc: Steve Dickson , Noam Meltzer , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] NFSv4 rpc.idmapd plugin Message-ID: <20140313172531.GA7124@fieldses.org> References: <1393918676-20865-1-git-send-email-noam@primarydata.com> <5321CDB6.7010803@RedHat.com> <1394729939.32465.231.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1394729939.32465.231.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 11:24 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > V4 servers now have an option of returning a uid string (aka "3606") > > where the NFS client just converts that into the uid. > > Can the client tell the server *not to do that* ? The client can use kerberos, in which case the server won't do that. Other than that, no, the behavior can only be controlled by server-side configuration. --b.