marvel@NRC.COM (Mike Saul) (07/06/90)
I wonder if someone could explain under what circumstances the Sun NFS Client decides to issue "partial" credentials for creating a file. Before any request is handled by an NFS Server, it authenticates the Unix credentials, which contain a uid-gid pair. If the request happens to be to create a file, the NFS Client then sends over the create arguments, which also contain a uid-gid pair. This uid-gid pair can differ from the credentials contained in the original request. Sometimes one or both of these fields are set to -1, which means to ignore the field. This can sometimes lead to problems if you are using the uid-gid to map the credentials to some other uid-gid pair. Is there some way to control these fields as a user on the NFS Client? It may be necessary to have the NFS Server use the uid-gid pair which accompanies the original request, where no -1's are allowed. So, this leads to the next question. Is there any reason for the gid-uid pair being in the create arguments? Thanks. -- ============================================================================== Michael Saul Network Research Corp. ihnp4!nrcvax!marvel 1620 Federal Ave. Suite #2 seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!nrc-ut!nrcvax!marvel LA, CA, 90025, USA marvel@nrc.com (213) 479-6436 "Just the facts please, just the facts!"