From: Ronnie Sahlberg Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:24:15 +0000 (-0700) Subject: On unix systems, when creating the default authentication token X-Git-Tag: upstream/1.9.6^2~207 X-Git-Url: https://git.piment-noir.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=43e0e7a7e6cbec9ba55db89eac368d42e969ad55;hp=43e0e7a7e6cbec9ba55db89eac368d42e969ad55;p=deb_libnfs.git On unix systems, when creating the default authentication token use getgid() as the group instead of -1. Recent linux knfsd do not allow grp==-1 On windows there are no uid/gids in the traditional sense so there I still specify a default credential of uid==gid==-1 : rpc->auth = authunix_create("LibNFS", 65535, 65535, 0, NULL); This is I think the sanest/safest thing to do since most servers will have special handing of -1 meaning 'nobody' or similar. This should work on many/most servers and give the user the minimum available access allowed for 'nobody'. I think on windows (or AROS for that matter) applications will probably have to invoke and set the credentials themself explicitely. Those apps probably, unfortunately, also need to have a configuration setting to select which uid/gid to use when talking to the server. (or they could hardcode it) rpc_set_auth(rpc, libnfs_authunix_create("hostname", uid, gid, 0, NULL)) should do the trick if they call immediately after creating the rpc/nfs context. But dont set it to 0,0 root/root for uid/gid. First of all, most servers have root-squash so they will re-map this uid/gid to 'nobody' internally. But, if the user uses a server that does not do root-squash, then setting this to 0,0 would mean that your app now access the nfs share as root which is probably not what you want. ---