root-user mapped as nobody

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 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.

Ok, good to know that :) In the meantime, here's a patch against nfs-utils 
1.0.9 which seems to work for us :

http://users.tkk.fi/~aet/nfs-utils-1.0.9.patch.aet


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