What is difference between anon setting 0 and 65534 when creating export-policy rule?
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- NFS
Answer
- anon parameter specifies a UNIX user ID or user name that the user credentials are mapped to when evaluation of rorule or superuser parameters result in user being mapped to the anonymous user.
- The default setting of this parameter is 65534, which is normally associated with the user name
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in Linux environments. - Setting this paramater to 0 means the users mapped to the anonymous user will get root access.