[ale] NFS (no, it doesn't stand for No Fairtax System) :-)

[James P. Kinney III]

Jim,

I have some NFS stuff on a system. I have some nfs user data
from /etc/passwd:
rpcuser:x:29:29:RPC Service User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
nfsnobody:x:4294967294:4294967294:Anonymous NFS
User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin

Note that I have a Fedora system. But in general, the NFS is process is
not run by root. When NFS is running, the rpcuser owns the rpc.statd
process and portmap is owned by another user called rpc. I am running
NFS v4.

So, yes, create a user to run NFS stuff with. My /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm
directory is owned by rpcuser with perms 700 and so is its statd parent.

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:03 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I'm relatively new to NFS in producftion systems, and I am setting up a
> production NFS server.  When I start up nfs-kernel-server (Debian Sarge)
> I get this log message:
> 
>   statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user
> 
> Question: should I change /var/lib/nfs/sm to something other than the
> default of root?  Is there a problem leaving it owned by root?  
> 
> NOTE: the server doesn't expose shared mounts to the outside world. ;-)
> 
> Thx,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
> 
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