kerberised nfs4 throwing gssd errors when rpcgssd service is running fine

[Kevin Coffman]

I'll assume you are using a redhat variant.

Do you have the following in /etc/sysconfig/nfs?

  # Set to turn on Secure NFS mounts.
  SECURE_NFS="yes"
  # Optional arguments passed to rpc.gssd. See rpc.gssd(8)
  RPCGSSDARGS="-vvv"

w/o SECURE_NFS="yes", rpc.gssd will not start.

If you still have trouble, RPCGSSDARGS="-vvv" should produce more output.


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Praveen
NAtarajah<praveensoft_tech at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> When I restart rpcgssd using "service rpcgssd restart", I donot get OK
> prompt for service getting restarted.  I donot have any other output other
> than this when I mount the kerberised nfs share-
> mount -a
> Warning: rpc.gssd does not seem to be running
>> mount.nfs4 invalid argument
>
> Warm regards,
>  Praveen.N
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kevin Coffman <kwc at citi.umich.edu>
> To: Praveen NAtarajah <praveensoft_tech at yahoo.com>
> Cc: nfsv4 at linux-nfs.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 August, 2009 7:30:52 PM
> Subject: Re: kerberised nfs4 throwing gssd errors when rpcgssd service is
> running fine
>
> Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Praveen
> NAtarajah<praveensoft_tech at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am getting the following message when I tried to implement kerberized
>> nfs
>> with nfs4. I restarted rpcgssd service several times without much luck. I
>> have added sec=krb5p in /etc/fstab.
>> /etc/fstab entry
>> -----------------------
>> 192.168.242.129:/home/nfs  /home/nfs  nfs4   sec=krb5p 0 0
>> #mount -a
>> Warning: rpc.gssd does not seem to be running
>> mount.nfs4 invalid argument
>>
>> Can someone help with this?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>  Praveen.N
>
> Are you specifying the "-vvv" option for rpc.gssd?  Is there any output?
>
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