When will nobody show as owner of NFS mounts?
Applies to
- ONTAP
- NFSv4
- NFS Mounts
Answer
Nobody is seen in the one of the following three scenarios:
- The client does not know who the user is
getent passwd <uid>
andgetent group <gid>
on a client can be used in conjunction withfile-directory show
from ONTAP to see if there is a mismatch- If
getent
doesn't show a user or group, then the client has no idea who the user/group is and will say "nobody". - In NFSv3, the client could instead display the uid/gid, but for NFSv4 ONTAP will not send a uid/gid if it can obtain a name.
- If
- The ID Domain does not match - if the ID Domain does not match, the client will not attempt to look up the user/group.
- It will assume that it cannot obtain an accurate result.
- Reference KB:UID and GID displays "nobody" on NFSv4 mount when UID/GID do not match with domain config
- The file/directory is legitimately owned by 'nobody' - common nobody uid/gids are 99, 65534, and 65535.
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