root-user mapped as nobody

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:47AM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>    I've asked about this before, but is it a feature that nfsv4+krb5 on 
> Linux has a side-effect that root is always mapped as nobody? I've tested 
> the client on RHEL4/5b2, Ubuntu 6.06/6.10/7.0x, Solaris 10 and only on 
> Solaris does root-access work as it should (the server is ONTAP 7.1.1). So 
> it shouldn't be just our environment which is making the trouble.. 
> Ordinary users work ok.

It's a known problem.

--b.