Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?)

Posted Nov 1, 2021 19:01 UTC (Mon) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?) by joib
Parent article: Fedora considers removing NIS support

Recent NFSv4 server and client will default to using numeric uid's and gid's in stuff like setattrs and getattrs and readdirs, if you're not using krb5.

There's a little explanation of this in the documentation of the nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping and nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping parameters in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?)

Posted Nov 1, 2021 19:17 UTC (Mon) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link] (1 responses)

Ah, thanks, that explains it. Makes sense.

Is this behavior specified in some RFC, or is it a Linux-specific extension?

Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?)

Posted Nov 1, 2021 20:12 UTC (Mon) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link]

It's enabled by language that got added to a later version of the RFC (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7530#page-53, starting with "To provide a greater degree of compatibility with NFSv3...").

But of course that doesn't require anyone to update their implementation. I'm not sure what the deal is with non-Linux clients and servers.