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author | Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> | 2020-01-10 20:24:28 -0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-01-16 12:43:05 -0700 |
commit | fbdcd0b8e56492dd85bd8d08f15a14334bb59259 (patch) | |
tree | e5d1a257a294784f8bf18cf332b6819eaafb4f4c /Documentation | |
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Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST
Convert idmapper.txt to ReST and move it to admin-guide.
Content remains mostly unchanged otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/069e40cd551ea778538f8fe9ad15ee26e45fc748.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-idmapper.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt) | 31 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst index e0b2f4260ad7..8376d5225fc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst @@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ NFS nfsroot nfs-rdma nfsd-admin-interfaces + nfs-idmapper diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-idmapper.rst index b86831acd583..58b8e63412d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfs-idmapper.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ +============= +NFS ID Mapper +============= -========= -ID Mapper -========= Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two @@ -20,22 +20,24 @@ legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored in a custom NFS idmap cache. -=========== Configuring =========== + The file /etc/request-key.conf will need to be modified so /sbin/request-key can direct the upcall. The following line should be added: -#OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ... -#====== ======= =============== =============== =============================== -create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600 +``#OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...`` +``#====== ======= =============== =============== ===============================`` +``create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600`` + This will direct all id_resolver requests to the program /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap. The last parameter, 600, defines how many seconds into the future the key will expire. This parameter is optional for /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap. When the timeout is not specified, nfs.idmap will default to 600 seconds. -id mapper uses for key descriptions: +id mapper uses for key descriptions:: + uid: Find the UID for the given user gid: Find the GID for the given group user: Find the user name for the given UID @@ -45,23 +47,24 @@ You can handle any of these individually, rather than using the generic upcall program. If you would like to use your own program for a uid lookup then you would edit your request-key.conf so it look similar to this: -#OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ... -#====== ======= =============== =============== =============================== -create id_resolver uid:* * /some/other/program %k %d 600 -create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600 +``#OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...`` +``#====== ======= =============== =============== ===============================`` +``create id_resolver uid:* * /some/other/program %k %d 600`` +``create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600`` + Notice that the new line was added above the line for the generic program. request-key will find the first matching line and corresponding program. In this case, /some/other/program will handle all uid lookups and /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups. -See <file:Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst> for more information +See Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst for more information about the request-key function. -========= nfs.idmap ========= + nfs.idmap is designed to be called by request-key, and should not be run "by hand". This program takes two arguments, a serialized key and a key description. The serialized key is first converted into a key_serial_t, and |