NFSv4 mount configurations

[Kevin Coffman]

On 6/20/07, Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart at bull.net> wrote:
>
> I can see the mounted file system content.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> I'd like to set up a configuration as follows:
>
> - Assume user_i has his/her partition, named /dev/sdxi, on the server
>
> - Assume /exports is exported as:
>
> /export gss/krb5(sync,rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
>
> - I, as root on the server, mount each of /dev/sdxi on /mnt/sdxi,
>  and I bind them as /exports/sdxi:
>
> /export/sdxi gss/krb5(sync,rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
>
> What should be added to indicate that user_i/<machine>.<domain>@<realm> is allowed
> to mount his/her own partition ?
> (I do not need an ACL for the files on the file system.)
>
> When I do a "mount server:/", like I did above as root, everything is mounted.
> How can server:/sdxi be mounted separately?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zoltan

I think we're on to a new topic, so I changed the subject.

I'm probably missing something, but what is the reason that users
should be restricted to mounting only their partition rather than the
whole exports tree?

K.C.