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31.Dd Feb 11, 2019
32.Dt EXPORTS 5
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm exports
36.Nd define remote mount points for
37.Tn NFS
38mount requests
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44file specifies remote mount points for the
45.Tn NFS
46mount protocol per the
47.Tn NFS
48server specification; see
49.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
50RFC1094, Appendix A and
51.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Specification" ,
52Appendix I.
53.Pp
54Each line in the file
55(other than comment lines that begin with a #)
56specifies the mount point(s) and export flags within one local server
57file system or the NFSv4 tree root for one or more hosts.
58A long line may be split over several lines by ending all but the
59last line with a backslash
60.Pq Ql \e .
61A host may be specified only once for each local file or the NFSv4 tree root on the
62server and there may be only one default entry for each server
63file system that applies to all other hosts.
64The latter exports the file system to the
65.Dq world
66and should
67be used only when the file system contains public information.
68.Pp
69In a mount entry,
70the first field(s) specify the directory path(s) within a server file system
71that can be mounted on by the corresponding client(s).
72There are three forms of this specification.
73The first is to list all mount points as absolute
74directory paths separated by whitespace.
75This list of directory paths should be considered an
76.Dq administrative control ,
77since it is only enforced by the
78.Xr mountd 8
79daemon and not the kernel.
80As such, it only applies to NFSv2 and NFSv3 mounts and only
81with respect to the client's use of the mount protocol.
82The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the file system
83followed by the
84.Fl alldirs
85flag;
86this form allows the host(s) to mount at any point within the file system,
87including regular files if the
88.Fl r
89option is used on
90.Xr mountd 8 .
91Because NFSv4 does not use the mount protocol,
92the
93.Dq administrative controls
94are not applied and all directories within this server
95file system are mountable via NFSv4 even if the
96.Fl alldirs
97flag has not been specified.
98The third form has the string ``V4:'' followed by a single absolute path
99name, to specify the NFSv4 tree root.
100This line does not export any file system, but simply marks where the root
101of the server's directory tree is for NFSv4 clients.
102The exported file systems for NFSv4 are specified via the other lines
103in the
104.Nm
105file in the same way as for NFSv2 and NFSv3.
106The pathnames must not have any symbolic links in them and should not have
107any
108.Dq Pa \&.
109or
110.Dq Pa ..
111components.
112Mount points for a file system may appear on multiple lines each with
113different sets of hosts and export options.
114.Pp
115The second component of a line specifies how the file system is to be
116exported to the host set.
117The option flags specify whether the file system
118is exported read-only or read-write and how the client UID is mapped to
119user credentials on the server.
120For the NFSv4 tree root, the only option that can be specified in this
121section is
122.Fl sec .
123.Pp
124Export options are specified as follows:
125.Pp
126.Sm off
127.Fl maproot Li = Sy user
128.Sm on
129The credential of the specified user is used for remote access by root.
130The credential includes all the groups to which the user is a member
131on the local machine (see
132.Xr id 1 ) .
133The user may be specified by name or number.
134The user string may be quoted, or use backslash escaping.
135.Pp
136.Sm off
137.Fl maproot Li = Sy user:group1:group2:...
138.Sm on
139The colon separated list is used to specify the precise credential
140to be used for remote access by root.
141The elements of the list may be either names or numbers.
142Note that user: should be used to distinguish a credential containing
143no groups from a complete credential for that user.
144The group names may be quoted, or use backslash escaping.
145.Pp
146.Sm off
147.Fl mapall Li = Sy user
148.Sm on
149or
150.Sm off
151.Fl mapall Li = Sy user:group1:group2:...
152.Sm on
153specifies a mapping for all client UIDs (including root)
154using the same semantics as
155.Fl maproot .
156.Pp
157The option
158.Fl r
159is a synonym for
160.Fl maproot
161in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
162.Pp
163In the absence of
164.Fl maproot
165and
166.Fl mapall
167options, remote accesses by root will result in using a credential of 65534:65533.
168All other users will be mapped to their remote credential.
169If a
170.Fl maproot
171option is given,
172remote access by root will be mapped to that credential instead of 65534:65533.
173If a
174.Fl mapall
175option is given,
176all users (including root) will be mapped to that credential in
177place of their own.
178.Pp
179.Sm off
180.Fl sec Li = Sy flavor1:flavor2...
181.Sm on
182specifies a colon separated list of acceptable security flavors to be
183used for remote access.
184Supported security flavors are sys, krb5, krb5i and krb5p.
185If multiple flavors are listed, they should be ordered with the most
186preferred flavor first.
187If this option is not present,
188the default security flavor list of just sys is used.
189.Pp
190The
191.Fl ro
192option specifies that the file system should be exported read-only
193(default read/write).
194The option
195.Fl o
196is a synonym for
197.Fl ro
198in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
199.Pp
200.Tn WebNFS
201exports strictly according to the spec (RFC 2054 and RFC 2055) can
202be done with the
203.Fl public
204flag.
205However, this flag in itself allows r/w access to all files in
206the file system, not requiring reserved ports and not remapping UIDs.
207It
208is only provided to conform to the spec, and should normally not be used.
209For a
210.Tn WebNFS
211export,
212use the
213.Fl webnfs
214flag, which implies
215.Fl public ,
216.Sm off
217.Fl mapall No = Sy nobody
218.Sm on
219and
220.Fl ro .
221Note that only one file system can be
222.Tn WebNFS
223exported on a server.
224.Pp
225A
226.Sm off
227.Fl index No = Pa file
228.Sm on
229option can be used to specify a file whose handle will be returned if
230a directory is looked up using the public filehandle
231.Pq Tn WebNFS .
232This is to mimic the behavior of URLs.
233If no
234.Fl index
235option is specified, a directory filehandle will be returned as usual.
236The
237.Fl index
238option only makes sense in combination with the
239.Fl public
240or
241.Fl webnfs
242flags.
243.Pp
244Specifying the
245.Fl quiet
246option will inhibit some of the syslog diagnostics for bad lines in
247.Pa /etc/exports .
248This can be useful to avoid annoying error messages for known possible
249problems (see
250.Sx EXAMPLES
251below).
252.Pp
253The third component of a line specifies the host set to which the line applies.
254The set may be specified in three ways.
255The first way is to list the host name(s) separated by white space.
256(Standard Internet
257.Dq dot
258addresses may be used in place of names.)
259The second way is to specify a
260.Dq netgroup
261as defined in the
262.Pa netgroup
263file (see
264.Xr netgroup 5 ) .
265The third way is to specify an Internet subnetwork using a network and
266network mask that is defined as the set of all hosts with addresses within
267the subnetwork.
268This latter approach requires less overhead within the
269kernel and is recommended for cases where the export line refers to a
270large number of clients within an administrative subnet.
271.Pp
272The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated
273by whitespace.
274All names are checked to see if they are
275.Dq netgroup
276names
277first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise.
278Using the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
279circumvent the problem of a host that has the same name as a netgroup.
280The third case is specified by the flag
281.Sm off
282.Fl network Li = Sy netname Op Li / Ar prefixlength
283.Sm on
284and optionally
285.Sm off
286.Fl mask No = Sy netmask .
287.Sm on
288The netmask may be specified either by attaching a
289.Ar prefixlength
290to the
291.Fl network
292option, or by using a separate
293.Fl mask
294option.
295If the mask is not specified, it will default to the mask for that network
296class (A, B or C; see
297.Xr inet 4 ) .
298See the
299.Sx EXAMPLES
300section below.
301.Pp
302Scoped IPv6 address must carry scope identifier as documented in
303.Xr inet6 4 .
304For example,
305.Dq Li fe80::%re2/10
306is used to specify
307.Li fe80::/10
308on
309.Li re2
310interface.
311.Pp
312For the third form which specifies the NFSv4 tree root, the directory path
313specifies the location within the server's file system tree which is the
314root of the NFSv4 tree.
315There can only be one NFSv4 root directory per server.
316As such, all entries of this form must specify the same directory path.
317For file systems other than ZFS,
318this location can be any directory and does not
319need to be within an exported file system. If it is not in an exported
320file system, a very limited set of operations are permitted, so that an
321NFSv4 client can traverse the tree to an exported file system.
322Although parts of the NFSv4 tree can be non-exported, the entire NFSv4 tree
323must consist of local file systems capable of being exported via NFS.
324All ZFS file systems in the subtree below the NFSv4 tree root must be
325exported.
326NFSv4 does not use the mount protocol and does permit clients to cross server
327mount point boundaries, although not all clients are capable of crossing the
328mount points.
329.Pp
330The
331.Fl sec
332option on these line(s) specifies what security flavors may be used for
333NFSv4 operations that do not use file handles. Since these operations
334(SetClientID, SetClientIDConfirm, Renew, DelegPurge and ReleaseLockOnwer)
335allocate/modify state in the server, it is possible to restrict some clients to
336the use of the krb5[ip] security flavors, via this option.
337See the
338.Sx EXAMPLES
339section below.
340This third form is meaningless for NFSv2 and NFSv3 and is ignored for them.
341.Pp
342The
343.Xr mountd 8
344utility can be made to re-read the
345.Nm
346file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
347.Bd -literal -offset indent
348/etc/rc.d/mountd reload
349.Ed
350.Pp
351After sending the
352.Dv SIGHUP ,
353check the
354.Xr syslogd 8
355output to see whether
356.Xr mountd 8
357logged any parsing errors in the
358.Nm
359file.
360.Sh FILES
361.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
362.It Pa /etc/exports
363the default remote mount-point file
364.El
365.Sh EXAMPLES
366.Bd -literal -offset indent
367/usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends
368/usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16
369/usr -ro -mapall=nobody
370/u -maproot=bin: -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
371/a -network 192.168.0/24
372/a -network 3ffe:1ce1:1:fe80::/64
373/u2 -maproot=root friends
374/u2 -alldirs -network cis-net -mask cis-mask
375/cdrom -alldirs,quiet,ro -network 192.168.33.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
376/private -sec=krb5i
377/secret -sec=krb5p
378V4: /	-sec=krb5:krb5i:krb5p -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
379V4: /	-sec=sys:krb5:krb5i:krb5p grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
380.Ed
381.Pp
382Given that
383.Pa /usr , /u , /a
384and
385.Pa /u2
386are
387local file system mount points, the above example specifies the following:
388.Pp
389The file system rooted at
390.Pa /usr
391is exported to hosts
392.Em friends
393where friends is specified in the netgroup file
394with users mapped to their remote credentials and
395root mapped to UID 0 and group 10.
396It is exported read-write and the hosts in
397.Dq friends
398can mount either
399.Pa /usr
400or
401.Pa /usr/local .
402It is exported to
403.Em 131.104.48.16
404and
405.Em grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
406with users mapped to their remote credentials and
407root mapped to the user and groups associated with
408.Dq daemon ;
409it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with
410all users mapped to the user and groups associated with
411.Dq nobody .
412.Pp
413The file system rooted at
414.Pa /u
415is exported to all hosts on the subnetwork
416.Em 131.104.48
417with root mapped to the UID for
418.Dq bin
419and with no group access.
420.Pp
421The file system rooted at
422.Pa /u2
423is exported to the hosts in
424.Dq friends
425with root mapped to UID and groups
426associated with
427.Dq root ;
428it is exported to all hosts on network
429.Dq cis-net
430allowing mounts at any
431directory within /u2.
432.Pp
433The file system rooted at
434.Pa /a
435is exported to the network 192.168.0.0, with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
436However, the netmask length in the entry for
437.Pa /a
438is not specified through a
439.Fl mask
440option, but through the
441.Li / Ns Ar prefix
442notation.
443.Pp
444The file system rooted at
445.Pa /a
446is also exported to the IPv6 network
447.Li 3ffe:1ce1:1:fe80::
448address, using the upper 64 bits as the prefix.
449Note that, unlike with IPv4 network addresses, the specified network
450address must be complete, and not just contain the upper bits.
451With IPv6 addresses, the
452.Fl mask
453option must not be used.
454.Pp
455The file system rooted at
456.Pa /cdrom
457will be exported read-only to the entire network 192.168.33.0/24, including
458all its subdirectories.
459Since
460.Pa /cdrom
461is the conventional mountpoint for a CD-ROM device, this export will
462fail if no CD-ROM medium is currently mounted there since that line
463would then attempt to export a subdirectory of the root file system
464with the
465.Fl alldirs
466option which is not allowed.
467The
468.Fl quiet
469option will then suppress the error message for this condition that
470would normally be syslogged.
471As soon as an actual CD-ROM is going to be mounted,
472.Xr mount 8
473will notify
474.Xr mountd 8
475about this situation, and the
476.Pa /cdrom
477file system will be exported as intended.
478Note that without using the
479.Fl alldirs
480option, the export would always succeed.
481While there is no CD-ROM medium mounted under
482.Pa /cdrom ,
483it would export the (normally empty) directory
484.Pa /cdrom
485of the root file system instead.
486.Pp
487The file system rooted at
488.Pa /private
489will be exported using Kerberos 5 authentication and will require
490integrity protected messages for all accesses.
491The file system rooted at
492.Pa /secret
493will also be exported using Kerberos 5 authentication and all messages
494used to access it will be encrypted.
495.Pp
496For the experimental server, the NFSv4 tree is rooted at ``/'',
497and any client within the 131.104.48 subnet is permitted to perform NFSv4 state
498operations on the server, so long as valid Kerberos credentials are provided.
499The machine grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca is permitted to perform NFSv4 state
500operations on the server using AUTH_SYS credentials, as well as Kerberos ones.
501.Pp
502In the following example some directories are exported as NFSv3 and NFSv4:
503.Bd -literal -offset indent
504V4: /wingsdl/nfsv4
505/wingsdl/nfsv4/usr-ports -maproot=root -network 172.16.0.0 -mask 255.255.0.0
506/wingsdl/nfsv4/clasper   -maproot=root clasper
507.Ed
508.Pp
509Only one V4: line is needed or allowed to declare where NFSv4 is
510rooted.  The other lines declare specific exported directories with
511their absolute paths given in /etc/exports.
512.Pp
513The exported directories' paths are used for both v3 and v4.
514However, they are interpreted differently for v3 and v4.  A client
515mount command for usr-ports would use the server-absolute name when
516using nfsv3:
517.Bd -literal -offset indent
518mount server:/wingsdl/nfsv4/usr-ports /mnt/tmp
519.Ed
520.Pp
521A mount command using NFSv4 would use the path relative to the NFSv4
522root:
523.Bd -literal -offset indent
524mount server:/usr-ports /mnt/tmp
525.Ed
526.Pp
527This also differentiates which version you want if the client can do
528both v3 and v4.  The former will only ever do a v3 mount and the
529latter will only ever do a v4 mount.
530.Pp
531Note that due to different mount behavior between NFSv3 and NFSv4 a
532NFSv4 mount request for a directory that the client does not have
533permission for will succeed and read/write access will fail
534afterwards, whereas NFSv3 rejects the mount request.
535.Sh SEE ALSO
536.Xr nfsv4 4 ,
537.Xr netgroup 5 ,
538.Xr mountd 8 ,
539.Xr nfsd 8 ,
540.Xr showmount 8
541.Sh BUGS
542The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
543must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
544server mount point.
545It is recommended that all exported directories within the same server
546file system be specified on adjacent lines going down the tree.
547You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a netgroup.
548Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
549circumvent the problem.
550