Creating files on an NFSv4 share results in incorrect ownership when UID/GID's do not match on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- Changing ownership of a file from the NFS client functions as expected and the proper user and group is visible via an
ls -lorstatissued from the client. - Creating files as a user on the NFS client results in the files' ownership being modified to the
nobodyuser when the file ownership is inspected from the NFS client and as the numeric uid/gid when inspected from the NFS server:
NFS server:
# ls -l
-rw-r--r--. 1 1003 wheel 0 May 16 15:20 testfile
NFS client:
# ls -l
-rw-r--r--. 1 nfsnobody wheel 0 May 16 15:20 testfile
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or above
- Client mounting NFSv4 share
- uid/gid's differ between NFS server and NFS client
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