Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.7-3 Severity: normal
'man exports' says the default anonuid is -2. This translated properly to anonuid=65534 (i.e, the nobody user) for 16-bit user id's, but some change I did recently (either from kernel-2.6.8 to 2.6.11 or to the latest nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common packages in Debian unstable) has now changed the interpretation of -2 to be a very large number (which I did not save, but I believe it was probably 2^32-2 = 4294967294) which corresponds to no user on the system. The workaround so that root_squash corresponded to user nobody was to specify anonuid=65534 in the /etc/exports file, but this should not be necessary and the default should be changed from -2 (which gives different UID interpretations depending on the size of the integer storing the UIDs) to UID=65534. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages nfs-kernel-server depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcomerr2 1.37-2sarge1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2sarge2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libnfsidmap1 0.8-1 An nfs idmapping library ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii nfs-common 1:1.0.7-3 NFS support files common to client ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-1 System-V like init -- no debconf information __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
