Bug#830777: nfs-common: rpc.idmapd does not start under systemd on a pure client system

[Stig Inge Lea Bjørnsen]

I had the same issue on Debian Sid without nfs-kernel-server installed, 
rpc.idmapd is no longer running.

Manually installing the package keyutils got nfsidmap(5) working for me.
See the Linux kernel documentation [1].

[1] 
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-4.6/Documentation/filesystem/nfs/idmapper.txt.gz

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Stig Inge Lea Bjørnsen
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