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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
61file system 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 file system on the
66server and there may be only one default entry for each server
67file system that applies to all other hosts.
68The latter exports the file system to the ``world'' and should
69be used only when the file system contains public information.
70.Pp
71In a mount entry,
72the first field(s) specify the directory path(s) within a server file system
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 file system
78followed by the
79.Fl alldirs
80flag;
81this form allows the host(s) to mount at any point within the file system,
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 file system 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 file system is to be
92exported to the host set.
93The option flags specify whether the file system
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 ro
152option specifies that the file system should be exported read-only
153(default read/write).
154The option
155.Fl o
156is a synonym for
157.Fl ro
158in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
159.Pp
160.Tn WebNFS
161exports strictly according to the spec (RFC 2054 and RFC 2055) can
162be done with the
163.Fl public
164flag.
165However, this flag in itself allows r/w access to all files in
166the file system, not requiring reserved ports and not remapping uids.
167It
168is only provided to conform to the spec, and should normally not be used.
169For a
170.Tn WebNFS
171export,
172use the
173.Fl webnfs
174flag, which implies
175.Fl public ,
176.Sm off
177.Fl mapall No = Sy nobody
178.Sm on
179and
180.Fl ro .
181Note that only one file system can be
182.Tn WebNFS
183exported on a server.
184.Pp
185A
186.Sm off
187.Fl index No = Sy file
188.Sm on
189option can be used to specify a file whose handle will be returned if
190a directory is looked up using the public filehandle
191.Pq Tn WebNFS .
192This is to mimic the behavior of URLs.
193If no
194.Fl index
195option is specified, a directory filehandle will be returned as usual.
196The
197.Fl index
198option only makes sense in combination with the
199.Fl public
200or
201.Fl webnfs
202flags.
203.Pp
204Specifying the
205.Fl quiet
206option will inhibit some of the syslog diagnostics for bad lines in
207.Pa /etc/exports .
208This can be useful to avoid annoying error messages for known possible
209problems (see
210.Sx EXAMPLES
211below).
212.Pp
213The third component of a line specifies the host set to which the line applies.
214The set may be specified in three ways.
215The first way is to list the host name(s) separated by white space.
216(Standard Internet ``dot'' addresses may be used in place of names.)
217The second way is to specify a ``netgroup'' as defined in the netgroup file (see
218.Xr netgroup 5 ) .
219The third way is to specify an Internet subnetwork using a network and
220network mask that is defined as the set of all hosts with addresses within
221the subnetwork.
222This latter approach requires less overhead within the
223kernel and is recommended for cases where the export line refers to a
224large number of clients within an administrative subnet.
225.Pp
226The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated
227by whitespace.
228All names are checked to see if they are ``netgroup'' names
229first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise.
230Using the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
231circumvent the problem of a host that has the same name as a netgroup.
232The third case is specified by the flag
233.Sm off
234.Fl network No = Sy netname
235.Sm on
236and optionally
237.Sm off
238.Fl mask No = Sy netmask .
239.Sm on
240If the mask is not specified, it will default to the mask for that network
241class (A, B or C; see
242.Xr inet 4 ) .
243See the
244.Sx EXAMPLES
245section below.
246.Pp
247The
248.Xr mountd 8
249utility can be made to re-read the
250.Nm
251file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
252.Bd -literal -offset indent
253kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
254.Ed
255.Pp
256After sending the
257.Dv SIGHUP ,
258check the
259.Xr syslogd 8
260output to see whether
261.Xr mountd 8
262logged any parsing errors in the
263.Nm
264file.
265.Sh FILES
266.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
267.It Pa /etc/exports
268the default remote mount-point file
269.El
270.Sh EXAMPLES
271.Bd -literal -offset indent
272/usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends
273/usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16
274/usr -ro -mapall=nobody
275/u -maproot=bin: -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
276/u2 -maproot=root friends
277/u2 -alldirs -network cis-net -mask cis-mask
278/cdrom -alldirs,quiet,ro -network 192.168.33.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
279.Ed
280.Pp
281Given that
282.Sy /usr ,
283.Sy /u
284and
285.Sy /u2
286are
287local file system mount points, the above example specifies the following:
288.Pp
289.Sy /usr
290is exported to hosts
291.Em friends
292where friends is specified in the netgroup file
293with users mapped to their remote credentials and
294root mapped to uid 0 and group 10.
295It is exported read-write and the hosts in ``friends'' can mount either /usr
296or /usr/local.
297It is exported to
298.Em 131.104.48.16
299and
300.Em grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
301with users mapped to their remote credentials and
302root mapped to the user and groups associated with ``daemon'';
303it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with
304all users mapped to the user and groups associated with ``nobody''.
305.Pp
306.Sy /u
307is exported to all hosts on the subnetwork
308.Em 131.104.48
309with root mapped to the uid for ``bin'' and with no group access.
310.Pp
311.Sy /u2
312is exported to the hosts in ``friends'' with root mapped to uid and groups
313associated with ``root'';
314it is exported to all hosts on network ``cis-net'' allowing mounts at any
315directory within /u2.
316.Pp
317The file system rooted at
318.Sy /cdrom
319will exported read-only to the entire network 192.168.33.0/24, including
320all its subdirectories.
321Since
322.Sy /cdrom
323is the conventional mountpoint for a CD-ROM device, this export will
324fail if no CD-ROM medium is currently mounted there since that line
325would then attempt to export a subdirectory of the root file system
326with the
327.Fl alldirs
328option which is not allowed.
329The
330.Fl quiet
331option will then suppress the error message for this condition that
332would normally be syslogged.
333As soon as an actual CD-ROM is going to be mounted,
334.Xr mount 8
335will notify
336.Xr mountd 8
337about this situation, and the
338.Sy /cdrom
339file system will be exported as intended.
340Note that without using the
341.Fl alldirs
342option, the export would always succeed.
343While there is no CD-ROM medium mounted under
344.Sy /cdrom ,
345it would export the (normally empty) directory
346.Sy /cdrom
347of the root file system instead.
348.Sh SEE ALSO
349.Xr netgroup 5 ,
350.Xr mountd 8 ,
351.Xr nfsd 8 ,
352.Xr showmount 8
353.Sh BUGS
354The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
355must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
356server mount point.
357It is recommended that all exported directories within the same server
358file system be specified on adjacent lines going down the tree.
359You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a netgroup.
360Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
361circumvent the problem.
362