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NAME
nfsidmap - The NFS idmapper upcall program
SYNOPSIS
nfsidmap [-v] [-t timeout] key desc
nfsidmap [-v] [-c]
nfsidmap [-v] [-u|-g|-r user]
DESCRIPTION
The file /usr/sbin/nfsidmap is used by the NFS idmapper to translate user and group ids into names, and
to translate user and group names into ids. Idmapper uses request-key to perform the upcall and cache the
result. /usr/sbin/nfsidmap is called by /sbin/request-key, and will perform the translation and
initialize a key with the resulting information.
nfsidmap can also used to clear the keyring of all the keys or revoke one particular key. This is useful
when the id mappings have failed to due to a lookup error resulting in all the cached uids/gids to be set
to the user id nobody.
OPTIONS
-c Clear the keyring of all the keys.
-g user
Revoke the gid key of the given user.
-r user
Revoke both the uid and gid key of the given user.
-t timeout
Set the expiration timer, in seconds, on the key. The default is 600 seconds (10 mins).
-u user
Revoke the uid key of the given user.
-v Increases the verbosity of the output to syslog (can be specified multiple times).
CONFIGURING
The file /etc/request-key.conf will need to be modified so /sbin/request-key can properly direct the
upcall. The following line should be added before a call to keyctl negate:
create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfsidmap -t 600 %k %d
This will direct all id_resolver requests to the program /usr/sbin/nfsidmap. The -t 600 defines how many
seconds into the future the key will expire. This is an optional parameter for /usr/sbin/nfsidmap and
will default to 600 seconds when not specified.
The idmapper system uses four 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
group: Find the group name for the given GID
You can choose to 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 looks
similar to this:
create id_resolver uid:* * /some/other/program %k %d
create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfsidmap %k %d
Notice that the new line was added above the line for the generic program. request-key will find the
first matching line and run the corresponding program. In this case, /some/other/program will handle all
uid lookups, and /usr/sbin/nfsidmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups.
AUTHOR
Bryan Schumaker, <bjschuma@netapp.com> 1 October 2010 nfsidmap(5)