5 Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to
6 translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves
7 performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two
8 ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key
9 or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.
11 NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the
12 result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should
13 only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key
14 type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key
17 If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not
18 configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the
19 legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored
20 in a custom NFS idmap cache.
26 The file /etc/request-key.conf will need to be modified so /sbin/request-key can
27 direct the upcall. The following line should be added:
29 #OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...
30 #====== ======= =============== =============== ===============================
31 create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600
33 This will direct all id_resolver requests to the program /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap.
34 The last parameter, 600, defines how many seconds into the future the key will
35 expire. This parameter is optional for /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap. When the timeout
36 is not specified, nfs.idmap will default to 600 seconds.
38 id mapper uses for key descriptions:
39 uid: Find the UID for the given user
40 gid: Find the GID for the given group
41 user: Find the user name for the given UID
42 group: Find the group name for the given GID
44 You can handle any of these individually, rather than using the generic upcall
45 program. If you would like to use your own program for a uid lookup then you
46 would edit your request-key.conf so it look similar to this:
48 #OP TYPE DESCRIPTION CALLOUT INFO PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2 ARG3 ...
49 #====== ======= =============== =============== ===============================
50 create id_resolver uid:* * /some/other/program %k %d 600
51 create id_resolver * * /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap %k %d 600
53 Notice that the new line was added above the line for the generic program.
54 request-key will find the first matching line and corresponding program. In
55 this case, /some/other/program will handle all uid lookups and
56 /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups.
58 See <file:Documentation/security/keys-request-key.txt> for more information
59 about the request-key function.
65 nfs.idmap is designed to be called by request-key, and should not be run "by
66 hand". This program takes two arguments, a serialized key and a key
67 description. The serialized key is first converted into a key_serial_t, and
68 then passed as an argument to keyctl_instantiate (both are part of keyutils.h).
70 The actual lookups are performed by functions found in nfsidmap.h. nfs.idmap
71 determines the correct function to call by looking at the first part of the
72 description string. For example, a uid lookup description will appear as
75 nfs.idmap will return 0 if the key was instantiated, and non-zero otherwise.