> Looks like the mapping of user/group strings to the numeric values is > performed > by a combination of the kernel and a user daemon called nfsuserd. > Looking at > the FreeBSD 6.0 code from Ricks FTP site the kernel is initially > seeded with > user/groups and then performs 'upcalls' to resolve cache misses. > nfsuserd will > use the doamin portion that is returned from the gethostname() call, > or whatever > you specify via the command line using the '-domain' option. If you > used the > start.nfs script from nfsv4utils the domain should have been printed > to stderr > when nfsuserd started something like "nfsuserd: > domain=corenode.com ...."
Wow Robert...you not only read my code, but described it better than I could. (It's been so long since I wrote it, I would have had to go look myself:-) However, the CITI client doesn't use nfsuserd. They had something called idmapd, but for some reason, I can't find it on the FreeBSD6 box sitting here. (Maybe it never made it onto the distro or got renamed?) I think Chuck Lever is your best/only bet for answers w.r.t. the FreeBSD client. Good luck with it, rick
