[Gluster-users] Is NFS available / enabled on purpose as default in the Ubuntu PPA?

Jiffin Tony Thottan jthottan at redhat.com
Thu Mar 3 07:07:12 UTC 2016



On 02/03/16 19:48, Fabian Wenk wrote:
> Hello Joe
>
> On 01.03.16 19:07, Joe Julian wrote:
>> On 03/01/2016 09:43 AM, Fabian Wenk wrote:
>>>
>>> With some testing, I did realize, that I can mount the volume with NFS
>>> from anywhere in my local network. According to the documentation [1],
>>> the option nfs.rpc-auth-allow should be set to 'Reject All' as
>>> default, but somehow it is not.
>>>
>>>   [1]
>>> https://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Volumes/ 
>>>
>>
>> Yep, that's a documentation bug. The source says, "By default, all
>> connections are allowed." - xlators/nfs/server/src/nfs.c#1848..1849
>
> Not nice, but thank you for the clarification.
>
Hi Fabian,

You can use following feature for nfs which is more advanced than the 
normal nfs.rpc-auth-allow
http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Export%20And%20Netgroup%20Authentication/

And also here,  by default all the clients are rejected.

--
Jiffin
> So my workaround then is probably the best solution which needs to be 
> done on each volume.
>
>
> bye
> Fabian
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