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32.\"     @(#)exports.5	8.3 (Berkeley) 3/29/95
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35.Dd March 29, 1995
36.Dt EXPORTS 5
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm exports
40.Nd define remote mount points for
41.Tn NFS
42mount requests
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48file specifies remote mount points for the
49.Tn NFS
50mount protocol per the
51.Tn NFS
52server specification; see
53.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
54RFC1094, Appendix A and
55.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Specification" ,
56Appendix I.
57.Pp
58Each line in the file
59(other than comment lines that begin with a #)
60specifies the mount point(s) and export flags within one local server
61filesystem for one or more hosts.
62A long line may be split over several lines by ending all but the
63last line with a backslash
64.Pq Ql \e .
65A host may be specified only once for each local filesystem on the
66server and there may be only one default entry for each server
67filesystem that applies to all other hosts.
68The latter exports the filesystem to the ``world'' and should
69be used only when the filesystem contains public information.
70.Pp
71In a mount entry,
72the first field(s) specify the directory path(s) within a server filesystem
73that can be mounted on by the corresponding client(s).
74There are two forms of this specification.
75The first is to list all mount points as absolute
76directory paths separated by whitespace.
77The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the filesystem
78followed by the
79.Fl alldirs
80flag;
81this form allows the host(s) to mount at any point within the filesystem,
82including regular files if the
83.Fl r
84option is used on
85.Xr mountd 8 .
86The pathnames must not have any symbolic links in them and should not have
87any "." or ".." components.
88Mount points for a filesystem may appear on multiple lines each with
89different sets of hosts and export options.
90.Pp
91The second component of a line specifies how the filesystem is to be
92exported to the host set.
93The option flags specify whether the filesystem
94is exported read-only or read-write and how the client uid is mapped to
95user credentials on the server.
96.Pp
97Export options are specified as follows:
98.Pp
99.Sm off
100.Fl maproot No = Sy user
101.Sm on
102The credential of the specified user is used for remote access by root.
103The credential includes all the groups to which the user is a member
104on the local machine (see
105.Xr id 1 ) .
106The user may be specified by name or number.
107.Pp
108.Sm off
109.Fl maproot No = Sy user:group1:group2:...
110.Sm on
111The colon separated list is used to specify the precise credential
112to be used for remote access by root.
113The elements of the list may be either names or numbers.
114Note that user: should be used to distinguish a credential containing
115no groups from a complete credential for that user.
116.Pp
117.Sm off
118.Fl mapall No = Sy user
119.Sm on
120or
121.Sm off
122.Fl mapall No = Sy user:group1:group2:...
123.Sm on
124specifies a mapping for all client uids (including root)
125using the same semantics as
126.Fl maproot .
127.Pp
128The option
129.Fl r
130is a synonym for
131.Fl maproot
132in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
133.Pp
134In the absence of
135.Fl maproot
136and
137.Fl mapall
138options, remote accesses by root will result in using a credential of -2:-2.
139All other users will be mapped to their remote credential.
140If a
141.Fl maproot
142option is given,
143remote access by root will be mapped to that credential instead of -2:-2.
144If a
145.Fl mapall
146option is given,
147all users (including root) will be mapped to that credential in
148place of their own.
149.Pp
150The
151.Fl kerb
152option specifies that the Kerberos authentication server should be
153used to authenticate and map client credentials.
154This option requires that the kernel be built with the NFSKERB option.
155The use of this option will prevent the kernel from compiling
156unless calls to the appropriate Kerberos encryption routines
157are provided in the NFS source.
158.Pp
159The
160.Fl ro
161option specifies that the filesystem should be exported read-only
162(default read/write).
163The option
164.Fl o
165is a synonym for
166.Fl ro
167in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
168.Pp
169.Tn WebNFS
170exports strictly according to the spec (RFC 2054 and RFC 2055) can
171be done with the
172.Fl public
173flag.
174However, this flag in itself allows r/w access to all files in
175the filesystem, not requiring reserved ports and not remapping uids.
176It
177is only provided to conform to the spec, and should normally not be used.
178For a
179.Tn WebNFS
180export,
181use the
182.Fl webnfs
183flag, which implies
184.Fl public ,
185.Sm off
186.Fl mapall No = Sy nobody
187.Sm on
188and
189.Fl ro .
190.Pp
191A
192.Sm off
193.Fl index No = Sy file
194.Sm on
195option can be used to specify a file whose handle will be returned if
196a directory is looked up using the public filehandle
197.Pq Tn WebNFS .
198This is to mimic the behavior of URLs.
199If no
200.Fl index
201option is specified, a directory filehandle will be returned as usual.
202The
203.Fl index
204option only makes sense in combination with the
205.Fl public
206or
207.Fl webnfs
208flags.
209.Pp
210The third component of a line specifies the host set to which the line applies.
211The set may be specified in three ways.
212The first way is to list the host name(s) separated by white space.
213(Standard Internet ``dot'' addresses may be used in place of names.)
214The second way is to specify a ``netgroup'' as defined in the netgroup file (see
215.Xr netgroup 5 ) .
216The third way is to specify an Internet subnetwork using a network and
217network mask that is defined as the set of all hosts with addresses within
218the subnetwork.
219This latter approach requires less overhead within the
220kernel and is recommended for cases where the export line refers to a
221large number of clients within an administrative subnet.
222.Pp
223The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated
224by whitespace.
225All names are checked to see if they are ``netgroup'' names
226first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise.
227Using the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
228circumvent the problem of a host that has the same name as a netgroup.
229The third case is specified by the flag
230.Sm off
231.Fl network No = Sy netname
232.Sm on
233and optionally
234.Sm off
235.Fl mask No = Sy netmask .
236.Sm on
237If the mask is not specified, it will default to the mask for that network
238class (A, B or C; see
239.Xr inet 4 ) .
240.Pp
241For example:
242.Bd -literal -offset indent
243/usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends
244/usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16
245/usr -ro -mapall=nobody
246/u -maproot=bin: -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
247/u2 -maproot=root friends
248/u2 -alldirs -kerb -network cis-net -mask cis-mask
249.Ed
250.Pp
251Given that
252.Sy /usr ,
253.Sy /u
254and
255.Sy /u2
256are
257local filesystem mount points, the above example specifies the following:
258.Sy /usr
259is exported to hosts
260.Em friends
261where friends is specified in the netgroup file
262with users mapped to their remote credentials and
263root mapped to uid 0 and group 10.
264It is exported read-write and the hosts in ``friends'' can mount either /usr
265or /usr/local.
266It is exported to
267.Em 131.104.48.16
268and
269.Em grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
270with users mapped to their remote credentials and
271root mapped to the user and groups associated with ``daemon'';
272it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with
273all users mapped to the user and groups associated with ``nobody''.
274.Pp
275.Sy /u
276is exported to all hosts on the subnetwork
277.Em 131.104.48
278with root mapped to the uid for ``bin'' and with no group access.
279.Pp
280.Sy /u2
281is exported to the hosts in ``friends'' with root mapped to uid and groups
282associated with ``root'';
283it is exported to all hosts on network ``cis-net'' allowing mounts at any
284directory within /u2 and mapping all uids to credentials for the principal
285that is authenticated by a Kerberos ticket.
286.Pp
287The
288.Xr mountd 8
289utility can be made to re-read the
290.Nm
291file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
292.Bd -literal -offset indent
293kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
294.Ed
295.Pp
296After sending the
297.Dv SIGHUP ,
298check the
299.Xr syslogd 8
300output to see whether
301.Xr mountd 8
302logged any parsing errors in the
303.Nm
304file.
305.Sh FILES
306.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
307.It Pa /etc/exports
308the default remote mount-point file
309.El
310.Sh SEE ALSO
311.Xr netgroup 5 ,
312.Xr mountd 8 ,
313.Xr nfsd 8 ,
314.Xr showmount 8
315.Sh BUGS
316The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
317must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
318server mount point.
319It is recommended that all exported directories within the same server
320filesystem be specified on adjacent lines going down the tree.
321You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a netgroup.
322Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
323circumvent the problem.
324