[NFS-Ganesha-Support] Possible to run NFSv4 server as non-root user?

17 Jun 2021

      Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to run Ganesha as a normal user, to start up an NFSv4 server on a chosen port the user is allowed to bind and serve the user's files. I've made some progress, but I'm currently facing the error message "ganesha.nfsd-1003865[main] __Register_program :DISP :MAJ :Cannot register RQUOTA V1 on UDP". I thought NFSv4 didn't need to run on UDP, and I've tried to configure it to only run on TCP but no luck so far.

I'm also slightly confused about rpcbind dependency. Is it possible to disable/avoid using for a simple use case like this?

Here's my config so far:

NFS_KRB5 {
    Active_krb5 = false;
}

NFS_CORE_PARAM {
    Protocols = 4;
    NFS_Port = 7777;
    Rquota_Port = 7778;
}

EXPORT {
    Export_Id = 2;

    Path = /tmp/exported;
    Pseudo = /tmp/exported;

    Access_Type = RW;
    Squash = No_Root_Squash;

    Transports = "TCP";
    Protocols = 4;
    # SecType = none;
    SecType = "sys";

    FSAL {
        Name = VFS;
    }
}

[NFS-Ganesha-Support] Possible to run NFSv4 server as non-root user?

Tom McLaughlin