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31.Dd August 14, 2014
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.
134.Pp
135.Sm off
136.Fl maproot Li = Sy user:group1:group2:...
137.Sm on
138The colon separated list is used to specify the precise credential
139to be used for remote access by root.
140The elements of the list may be either names or numbers.
141Note that user: should be used to distinguish a credential containing
142no groups from a complete credential for that user.
143.Pp
144.Sm off
145.Fl mapall Li = Sy user
146.Sm on
147or
148.Sm off
149.Fl mapall Li = Sy user:group1:group2:...
150.Sm on
151specifies a mapping for all client UIDs (including root)
152using the same semantics as
153.Fl maproot .
154.Pp
155The option
156.Fl r
157is a synonym for
158.Fl maproot
159in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
160.Pp
161In the absence of
162.Fl maproot
163and
164.Fl mapall
165options, remote accesses by root will result in using a credential of -2:-2.
166All other users will be mapped to their remote credential.
167If a
168.Fl maproot
169option is given,
170remote access by root will be mapped to that credential instead of -2:-2.
171If a
172.Fl mapall
173option is given,
174all users (including root) will be mapped to that credential in
175place of their own.
176.Pp
177.Sm off
178.Fl sec Li = Sy flavor1:flavor2...
179.Sm on
180specifies a colon separated list of acceptable security flavors to be
181used for remote access.
182Supported security flavors are sys, krb5, krb5i and krb5p.
183If multiple flavors are listed, they should be ordered with the most
184preferred flavor first.
185If this option is not present,
186the default security flavor list of just sys is used.
187.Pp
188The
189.Fl ro
190option specifies that the file system should be exported read-only
191(default read/write).
192The option
193.Fl o
194is a synonym for
195.Fl ro
196in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
197.Pp
198.Tn WebNFS
199exports strictly according to the spec (RFC 2054 and RFC 2055) can
200be done with the
201.Fl public
202flag.
203However, this flag in itself allows r/w access to all files in
204the file system, not requiring reserved ports and not remapping UIDs.
205It
206is only provided to conform to the spec, and should normally not be used.
207For a
208.Tn WebNFS
209export,
210use the
211.Fl webnfs
212flag, which implies
213.Fl public ,
214.Sm off
215.Fl mapall No = Sy nobody
216.Sm on
217and
218.Fl ro .
219Note that only one file system can be
220.Tn WebNFS
221exported on a server.
222.Pp
223A
224.Sm off
225.Fl index No = Pa file
226.Sm on
227option can be used to specify a file whose handle will be returned if
228a directory is looked up using the public filehandle
229.Pq Tn WebNFS .
230This is to mimic the behavior of URLs.
231If no
232.Fl index
233option is specified, a directory filehandle will be returned as usual.
234The
235.Fl index
236option only makes sense in combination with the
237.Fl public
238or
239.Fl webnfs
240flags.
241.Pp
242Specifying the
243.Fl quiet
244option will inhibit some of the syslog diagnostics for bad lines in
245.Pa /etc/exports .
246This can be useful to avoid annoying error messages for known possible
247problems (see
248.Sx EXAMPLES
249below).
250.Pp
251The third component of a line specifies the host set to which the line applies.
252The set may be specified in three ways.
253The first way is to list the host name(s) separated by white space.
254(Standard Internet
255.Dq dot
256addresses may be used in place of names.)
257The second way is to specify a
258.Dq netgroup
259as defined in the
260.Pa netgroup
261file (see
262.Xr netgroup 5 ) .
263The third way is to specify an Internet subnetwork using a network and
264network mask that is defined as the set of all hosts with addresses within
265the subnetwork.
266This latter approach requires less overhead within the
267kernel and is recommended for cases where the export line refers to a
268large number of clients within an administrative subnet.
269.Pp
270The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated
271by whitespace.
272All names are checked to see if they are
273.Dq netgroup
274names
275first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise.
276Using the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
277circumvent the problem of a host that has the same name as a netgroup.
278The third case is specified by the flag
279.Sm off
280.Fl network Li = Sy netname Op Li / Ar prefixlength
281.Sm on
282and optionally
283.Sm off
284.Fl mask No = Sy netmask .
285.Sm on
286The netmask may be specified either by attaching a
287.Ar prefixlength
288to the
289.Fl network
290option, or by using a separate
291.Fl mask
292option.
293If the mask is not specified, it will default to the mask for that network
294class (A, B or C; see
295.Xr inet 4 ) .
296See the
297.Sx EXAMPLES
298section below.
299.Pp
300Scoped IPv6 address must carry scope identifier as documented in
301.Xr inet6 4 .
302For example,
303.Dq Li fe80::%re2/10
304is used to specify
305.Li fe80::/10
306on
307.Li re2
308interface.
309.Pp
310For the third form which specifies the NFSv4 tree root, the directory path
311specifies the location within the server's file system tree which is the
312root of the NFSv4 tree.
313There can only be one NFSv4 root directory per server.
314As such, all entries of this form must specify the same directory path.
315For file systems other than ZFS,
316this location can be any directory and does not
317need to be within an exported file system. If it is not in an exported
318file system, a very limited set of operations are permitted, so that an
319NFSv4 client can traverse the tree to an exported file system.
320Although parts of the NFSv4 tree can be non-exported, the entire NFSv4 tree
321must consist of local file systems capable of being exported via NFS.
322All ZFS file systems in the subtree below the NFSv4 tree root must be
323exported.
324NFSv4 does not use the mount protocol and does permit clients to cross server
325mount point boundaries, although not all clients are capable of crossing the
326mount points.
327.Pp
328The
329.Fl sec
330option on these line(s) specifies what security flavors may be used for
331NFSv4 operations that do not use file handles. Since these operations
332(SetClientID, SetClientIDConfirm, Renew, DelegPurge and ReleaseLockOnwer)
333allocate/modify state in the server, it is possible to restrict some clients to
334the use of the krb5[ip] security flavors, via this option.
335See the
336.Sx EXAMPLES
337section below.
338This third form is meaningless for NFSv2 and NFSv3 and is ignored for them.
339.Pp
340The
341.Xr mountd 8
342utility can be made to re-read the
343.Nm
344file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
345.Bd -literal -offset indent
346/etc/rc.d/mountd reload
347.Ed
348.Pp
349After sending the
350.Dv SIGHUP ,
351check the
352.Xr syslogd 8
353output to see whether
354.Xr mountd 8
355logged any parsing errors in the
356.Nm
357file.
358.Sh FILES
359.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
360.It Pa /etc/exports
361the default remote mount-point file
362.El
363.Sh EXAMPLES
364.Bd -literal -offset indent
365/usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends
366/usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16
367/usr -ro -mapall=nobody
368/u -maproot=bin: -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
369/a -network 192.168.0/24
370/a -network 3ffe:1ce1:1:fe80::/64
371/u2 -maproot=root friends
372/u2 -alldirs -network cis-net -mask cis-mask
373/cdrom -alldirs,quiet,ro -network 192.168.33.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
374/private -sec=krb5i
375/secret -sec=krb5p
376V4: /	-sec=krb5:krb5i:krb5p -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
377V4: /	-sec=sys:krb5:krb5i:krb5p grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
378.Ed
379.Pp
380Given that
381.Pa /usr , /u , /a
382and
383.Pa /u2
384are
385local file system mount points, the above example specifies the following:
386.Pp
387The file system rooted at
388.Pa /usr
389is exported to hosts
390.Em friends
391where friends is specified in the netgroup file
392with users mapped to their remote credentials and
393root mapped to UID 0 and group 10.
394It is exported read-write and the hosts in
395.Dq friends
396can mount either
397.Pa /usr
398or
399.Pa /usr/local .
400It is exported to
401.Em 131.104.48.16
402and
403.Em grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
404with users mapped to their remote credentials and
405root mapped to the user and groups associated with
406.Dq daemon ;
407it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with
408all users mapped to the user and groups associated with
409.Dq nobody .
410.Pp
411The file system rooted at
412.Pa /u
413is exported to all hosts on the subnetwork
414.Em 131.104.48
415with root mapped to the UID for
416.Dq bin
417and with no group access.
418.Pp
419The file system rooted at
420.Pa /u2
421is exported to the hosts in
422.Dq friends
423with root mapped to UID and groups
424associated with
425.Dq root ;
426it is exported to all hosts on network
427.Dq cis-net
428allowing mounts at any
429directory within /u2.
430.Pp
431The file system rooted at
432.Pa /a
433is exported to the network 192.168.0.0, with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
434However, the netmask length in the entry for
435.Pa /a
436is not specified through a
437.Fl mask
438option, but through the
439.Li / Ns Ar prefix
440notation.
441.Pp
442The file system rooted at
443.Pa /a
444is also exported to the IPv6 network
445.Li 3ffe:1ce1:1:fe80::
446address, using the upper 64 bits as the prefix.
447Note that, unlike with IPv4 network addresses, the specified network
448address must be complete, and not just contain the upper bits.
449With IPv6 addresses, the
450.Fl mask
451option must not be used.
452.Pp
453The file system rooted at
454.Pa /cdrom
455will be exported read-only to the entire network 192.168.33.0/24, including
456all its subdirectories.
457Since
458.Pa /cdrom
459is the conventional mountpoint for a CD-ROM device, this export will
460fail if no CD-ROM medium is currently mounted there since that line
461would then attempt to export a subdirectory of the root file system
462with the
463.Fl alldirs
464option which is not allowed.
465The
466.Fl quiet
467option will then suppress the error message for this condition that
468would normally be syslogged.
469As soon as an actual CD-ROM is going to be mounted,
470.Xr mount 8
471will notify
472.Xr mountd 8
473about this situation, and the
474.Pa /cdrom
475file system will be exported as intended.
476Note that without using the
477.Fl alldirs
478option, the export would always succeed.
479While there is no CD-ROM medium mounted under
480.Pa /cdrom ,
481it would export the (normally empty) directory
482.Pa /cdrom
483of the root file system instead.
484.Pp
485The file system rooted at
486.Pa /private
487will be exported using Kerberos 5 authentication and will require
488integrity protected messages for all accesses.
489The file system rooted at
490.Pa /secret
491will also be exported using Kerberos 5 authentication and all messages
492used to access it will be encrypted.
493.Pp
494For the experimental server, the NFSv4 tree is rooted at ``/'',
495and any client within the 131.104.48 subnet is permitted to perform NFSv4 state
496operations on the server, so long as valid Kerberos credentials are provided.
497The machine grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca is permitted to perform NFSv4 state
498operations on the server using AUTH_SYS credentials, as well as Kerberos ones.
499.Sh SEE ALSO
500.Xr nfsv4 4 ,
501.Xr netgroup 5 ,
502.Xr mountd 8 ,
503.Xr nfsd 8 ,
504.Xr showmount 8
505.Sh BUGS
506The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
507must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
508server mount point.
509It is recommended that all exported directories within the same server
510file system be specified on adjacent lines going down the tree.
511You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a netgroup.
512Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
513circumvent the problem.
514