Debian - Nobody-Group idmapd issue

[jurim76]

By default Nobody-Group for idmapd service is "nobody" group , but in Debian user nobody belongs to "nogroup" group and service is refused to start under "nobody:nobody".
If define options in puppet, for example
class { '::nfs':
client_idmapd_setting => [ 'Nobody-User=nobody', 'Nobody-Group=nogroup' ]
}
and got error
Error: /Stage[main]/Nfs::Client::Config/Augeas[/etc/default/nfs-common]: Could not evaluate: Unknown command Nobody
Notice: /Stage[main]/Nfs::Client/Anchor[nfs::client::end]: Dependency Augeas[/etc/default/nfs-common] has failures: true

[derdanne]

Hey, thanks for your report.

When using client_idmapd_setting, you'll have to use the augeas syntax ("set key value") like:

$client_idmapd_setting = ['set NEED_IDMAPD yes']

--> https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/resources_augeas.html

[jurim76]

This does not work for me, if client uses NFSv4. The module make attempt to write idmapd settings into nfs-common config, which is wrong.

From nfs/manifests/client/config.pp
if $::nfs::client::nfs_v4 {
if $::nfs::defaults_file != undef {
augeas { $::nfs::defaults_file: <- variable point to /etc/default/nfs-common, not /etc/idmapd.conf
context => "/files/${::nfs::defaults_file}",
changes => $::nfs::client_idmapd_setting,
}
}

[derdanne]

Hi, this is a valid point, please look at the issue #87, which adresses the same problem.