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EXPORTS !!!EXPORTS NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE CAVEATS FILES DIAGNOSTICS SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME exports - NFS file systems being exported !!SYNOPSIS __/etc/exports__ !!DESCRIPTION The file ''/etc/exports'' serves as the access control list for file systems which may be exported to NFS clients. It is used by both the NFS mount daemon, mountd(8) and the NFS file server daemon nfsd(8). The file format is similar to the SunOS ''exports'' file, except that several additional options are permitted. Each line contains a mount point and a list of machine or netgroup names allowed to mount the file system at that point. An optional parenthesized list of mount parameters may follow each machine name. Blank lines are ignored, and a # introduces a comment to the end of the line. Entries may be continued across newlines using a backslash. __Machine Name Formats__ NFS clients may be specified in a number of ways: single host This is the most common format. You may specify a host either by an abbreviated name recognizued be the resolver, the fully qualified domain name, or an IP address. netgroups NIS netgroups may be given as ''@group''. Only the host part of all netgroup members is extracted and added to the access list. Empty host parts or those containing a single dash (-) are ignored. wildcards Machine names may contain the wildcard characters ''*'' and ''?''. This can be used to make the ''exports'' file more compact; for instance, ''*.cs.foo.edu'' matches all hosts in the domain ''cs.foo.edu''. However, these wildcard characters do not match the dots in a domain name, so the above pattern does not include hosts such as ''a.b.cs.foo.edu''. IP networks You can also export directories to all hosts on an IP (sub-) network simultaneously. This is done by specifying an IP address and netmask pair as ''address/netmask''. __=public__ This is a special ``hostname'' that identifies the given directory name as the public root directory (see the section on WebNFS in nfsd(8) for a discussion of WebNFS and the public root handle). When using this convention, __=public__ must be the only entry on this line, and must have no export options associated with it. Note that this does ''not'' actually export the named directory; you still have to set the exports options in a separate entry. The public root path can also be specified by invoking ''nfsd'' with the __--public-root__ option. Multiple specifications of a public root will be ignored. __General Options__ ''mountd'' and ''nfsd'' understand the following export options: ''secure'' This option requires that requests originate on an internet port less than IPPORT_RESERVED (1024). This option is on by default. To turn it off, specify ''insecure''. ''rw'' Allow the client to modify files and directories. The default is to restrict the client to read-only request, which can be made explicit by using the ''ro'' option. ''noaccess'' This makes everything below the directory inaccessible for the named client. This is useful when you want to export a directory hierarchy to a client, but exclude certain subdirectories. The client's view of a directory flagged with noaccess is very limited; it is allowed to read its attributes, and lookup `.' and `..'. These are also the only entries returned by a readdir. ''link_relative'' Convert absolute symbolic links (where the link contents start with a slash) into relative links by prepending the necessary number of ../'s to get from the directory containing the link to the root on the server. This has subtle, perhaps questionable, semantics when the file hierarchy is not mounted at its root. ''link_absolute'' Leave all symbolic link as they are. This is the default operation. __Anonymous Entries__ Entries where hosts are not specified are known as anonymous entries. They have different default settings compared to normal entries. The differences include ''all_squash'', ''no_secure'', and ''ro''. __User ID Mapping__ ''nfsd'' bases its access control to files on the server machine on the uid and gid provided in each NFS RPC request. The normal behavior a user would expect is that she can access her files on the server just as she would on a normal file system. This requires that the same uids and gids are used on the client and the server machine. This is not always true, nor is it always desirable. Very often, it is not desirable that the root user on a client machine is also treated as root when accessing files on the NFS server. To this end, uid 0 is normally mapped to a different id: the so-called anonymous or ''nobody'' uid. This mode of operation (called `root squashing') is the default, and can be turned off with ''no_root_squash''. By default, ''nfsd'' tries to obtain the anonymous uid and gid by looking up user ''nobody'' in the password file at startup time. If it isn't found, a uid and gid of -2 (i.e. 65534) is used. These values can also be overridden by the ''anonuid'' and ''anongid'' options. In addition to this, ''nfsd'' lets you specify arbitrary uids and gids that should be mapped to user nobody as well. Finally, you can map all user requests to the anonymous uid by specifying the ''all_squash'' option. For the benefit of installations where uids differ between different machines, ''nfsd'' provides several mechanism to dynamically map server uids to client uids and vice versa: static mapping files, NIS-based mapping, and ''ugidd''-based mapping. ''ugidd''-based mapping is enabled with the ''map_daemon'' option, and uses the UGID RPC protocol. For this to work, you have to run the ugidd(8) mapping daemon on the client host. It is the least secure of the three methods, because by running ''ugidd'', everybody can query the client host for a list of valid user names. You can protect yourself by restricting access to ''ugidd'' to valid hosts only. This can be done by entering the list of valid hosts into the ''hosts.allow'' or ''hosts.deny'' file. The service name is ''ugidd''. For a description of the file's syntax, please read ''hosts_access''(5). Static mapping is enabled by using the ''map_static'' option, which takes a file name as an argument that describes the mapping. NIS-based mapping queries the client's NIS server to obtain a mapping from user and group names on the server host to user and group names on the client. Here's the complete list of mapping options: ''root_squash'' Map requests from uid/gid 0 to the anonymous uid/gid. Note that this does not apply to any other uids that might be equally sensitive, such as user ''bin''. ''no_root_squash'' Turn off root squashing. This option is mainly useful for diskless clients. ''squash_uids'' and ''squash_gids'' This option specifies a list of uids or gids that should be subject to anonymous mapping. A valid list of ids looks like this: ''squash_uids=0-15,20,25-50'' Usually, your squash lists will look a lot simpler. ''all_squash'' Map all uids and gids to the anonymous user. Useful for NFS-exported public FTP directories, news spool directories, etc. The opposite option is ''no_all_squash'', which is the default setting. ''map_daemon'' This option turns on dynamic uid/gid mapping. Each uid in an NFS request will be translated to the equivalent server uid, and each uid in an NFS reply will be mapped the other way round. This option requires that ''rpc.ugidd''(8) runs on the client host. The default setting is ''map_identity'', which leaves all uids untouched. The normal squash options apply regardless of whether dynamic mapping is requested or not. ''map_static'' This option enables static mapping. It specifies the name of the file that describes the uid/gid mapping, e.g. ''map_static=/etc/nfs/foobar.map'' The file's format looks like this # Mapping for client foobar: # remote local uid 0-99 - # squash these uid 100-500 1000 # map 100-500 to 1000-1500 gid 0-49 - # squash these gid 50-100 700 # map 50-100 to 700-750 ''map_nis'' This option enables NIS-based uid/gid mapping. For instance, when the server encounters the uid 123 on the server, it will obtain the login name associated with it, and contact the NFS client's NIS server to obtain the uid the client associates with the name. In order to do this, the NFS server must know the client's NIS domain. This is specified as an argument to the ''map_nis'' options, e.g. ''map_nis=foo.com'' Note that it may not be sufficient to simply specify the NIS domain here; you may have to take additional actions before ''nfsd'' is actually able to contact the server. If your distribution uses the NYS library, you can specify one or more NIS servers for the client's domain in ''/etc/yp.conf''. If you are using a different NIS library, you may have to obtain a special ypbind(8) daemon that can be configured via ''yp.conf''. ''anonuid'' and ''anongid'' These options explicitly set the uid and gid of the anonymous account. This option is primarily useful for PC/NFS clients, where you might want all requests appear to be from one user. As an example, consider the export entry for __/home/joe__ in the example section below, which maps all requests to uid 150 (which is supposedly that of user joe). !!EXAMPLE # sample /etc/exports file / master(rw) trusty(rw,no_root_squash) /projects proj*.local.domain(rw) /usr *.local.domain(ro) @trusted(rw) /home/joe pc001(rw,all_squash,anonuid=150,anongid=100) /pub (ro,insecure,all_squash) /pub/private (noaccess) The first line exports the entire filesystem to machines master and trusty. In addition to write access, all uid squashing is turned off for host trusty. The second and third entry show examples for wildcard hostnames and netgroups (this is the entry `@trusted'). The fourth line shows the entry for the PC/NFS client discussed above. Line 5 exports the public FTP directory to every host in the world, executing all requests under the nobody account. The ''insecure'' option in this entry also allows clients with NFS implementations that don't use a reserved port for NFS. The last line denies all NFS clients access to the private directory. !!CAVEATS Unlike other NFS server implementations, this ''nfsd'' allows you to export both a directory and a subdirectory thereof to the same host, for instance ''/usr'' and ''/usr/X11R6''. In this case, the mount options of the most specific entry apply. For instance, when a user on the client host accesses a file in ''/usr/X11R6'', the mount options given in the ''/usr/X11R6'' entry apply. This is also true when the latter is a wildcard or netgroup entry. !!FILES /etc/exports !!DIAGNOSTICS An error parsing the file is reported using syslogd(8) as level NOTICE from a DAEMON whenever nfsd(8) or mountd(8) is started up. Any unknown host is reported at that time, but often not all hosts are not yet known to named(8) at boot time, thus as hosts are found they are reported with the same syslogd(8) parameters. !!SEE ALSO mountd(8), nfsd(8) ----
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