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35.Dd March 29, 1995
36.Dt EXPORTS 5
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm exports
40.Nd define remote mount points for
41.Tn NFS
42mount requests
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48file specifies remote mount points for the
49.Tn NFS
50mount protocol per the
51.Tn NFS
52server specification; see
53.%T "Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
54RFC1094, Appendix A and
55.%T "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Specification" ,
56Appendix I.
57.Pp
58Each line in the file
59(other than comment lines that begin with a #)
60specifies the mount point(s) and export flags within one local server
61filesystem for one or more hosts.
62A host may be specified only once for each local filesystem on the
63server and there may be only one default entry for each server
64filesystem that applies to all other hosts.
65The latter exports the filesystem to the ``world'' and should
66be used only when the filesystem contains public information.
67.Pp
68In a mount entry,
69the first field(s) specify the directory path(s) within a server filesystem
70that can be mounted on by the corresponding client(s).
71There are two forms of this specification.
72The first is to list all mount points as absolute
73directory paths separated by whitespace.
74The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the filesystem
75followed by the
76.Fl alldirs
77flag;
78this form allows the host(s) to mount at any point within the filesystem,
79including regular files if the
80.Fl r
81option is used on
82.Xr mountd 8 .
83The pathnames must not have any symbolic links in them and should not have
84any "." or ".." components.
85Mount points for a filesystem may appear on multiple lines each with
86different sets of hosts and export options.
87.Pp
88The second component of a line specifies how the filesystem is to be
89exported to the host set.
90The option flags specify whether the filesystem
91is exported read-only or read-write and how the client uid is mapped to
92user credentials on the server.
93.Pp
94Export options are specified as follows:
95.Pp
96.Sm off
97.Fl maproot No = Sy user
98.Sm on
99The credential of the specified user is used for remote access by root.
100The credential includes all the groups to which the user is a member
101on the local machine (see
102.Xr id 1 ) .
103The user may be specified by name or number.
104.Pp
105.Sm off
106.Fl maproot No = Sy user:group1:group2:...
107.Sm on
108The colon separated list is used to specify the precise credential
109to be used for remote access by root.
110The elements of the list may be either names or numbers.
111Note that user: should be used to distinguish a credential containing
112no groups from a complete credential for that user.
113.Pp
114.Sm off
115.Fl mapall No = Sy user
116.Sm on
117or
118.Sm off
119.Fl mapall No = Sy user:group1:group2:...
120.Sm on
121specifies a mapping for all client uids (including root)
122using the same semantics as
123.Fl maproot .
124.Pp
125The option
126.Fl r
127is a synonym for
128.Fl maproot
129in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
130.Pp
131In the absence of
132.Fl maproot
133and
134.Fl mapall
135options, remote accesses by root will result in using a credential of -2:-2.
136All other users will be mapped to their remote credential.
137If a
138.Fl maproot
139option is given,
140remote access by root will be mapped to that credential instead of -2:-2.
141If a
142.Fl mapall
143option is given,
144all users (including root) will be mapped to that credential in
145place of their own.
146.Pp
147The
148.Fl ro
149option specifies that the filesystem should be exported read-only
150(default read/write).
151The option
152.Fl o
153is a synonym for
154.Fl ro
155in an effort to be backward compatible with older export file formats.
156.Pp
157.Tn WebNFS
158exports strictly according to the spec (RFC 2054 and RFC 2055) can
159be done with the
160.Fl public
161flag.
162However, this flag in itself allows r/w access to all files in
163the filesystem, not requiring reserved ports and not remapping uids.
164It
165is only provided to conform to the spec, and should normally not be used.
166For a
167.Tn WebNFS
168export,
169use the
170.Fl webnfs
171flag, which implies
172.Fl public ,
173.Sm off
174.Fl mapall No = Sy nobody
175.Sm on
176and
177.Fl ro .
178.Pp
179A
180.Sm off
181.Fl index No = Sy file
182.Sm on
183option can be used to specify a file whose handle will be returned if
184a directory is looked up using the public filehandle
185.Pq Tn WebNFS .
186This is to mimic the behavior of URLs.
187If no
188.Fl index
189option is specified, a directory filehandle will be returned as usual.
190The
191.Fl index
192option only makes sense in combination with the
193.Fl public
194or
195.Fl webnfs
196flags.
197.Pp
198Specifying the
199.Fl quiet
200option will inhibit some of the syslog diagnostics for bad lines in
201.Pa /etc/exports .
202This can be useful to avoid annoying error messages for known possible
203problems (see
204.Sx EXAMPLES
205below).
206.Pp
207The third component of a line specifies the host set to which the line applies.
208The set may be specified in three ways.
209The first way is to list the host name(s) separated by white space.
210(Standard Internet ``dot'' addresses may be used in place of names.)
211The second way is to specify a ``netgroup'' as defined in the netgroup file (see
212.Xr netgroup 5 ) .
213The third way is to specify an Internet subnetwork using a network and
214network mask that is defined as the set of all hosts with addresses within
215the subnetwork.
216This latter approach requires less overhead within the
217kernel and is recommended for cases where the export line refers to a
218large number of clients within an administrative subnet.
219.Pp
220The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated
221by whitespace.
222All names are checked to see if they are ``netgroup'' names
223first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise.
224Using the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
225circumvent the problem of a host that has the same name as a netgroup.
226The third case is specified by the flag
227.Sm off
228.Fl network No = Sy netname
229.Sm on
230and optionally
231.Sm off
232.Fl mask No = Sy netmask .
233.Sm on
234If the mask is not specified, it will default to the mask for that network
235class (A, B or C; see
236.Xr inet 4 ) .
237See the
238.Sx EXAMPLES
239section below.
240.Pp
241The
242.Xr mountd 8
243utility can be made to re-read the
244.Nm
245file by sending it a hangup signal as follows:
246.Bd -literal -offset indent
247kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
248.Ed
249.Pp
250After sending the
251.Dv SIGHUP ,
252check the
253.Xr syslogd 8
254output to see whether
255.Xr mountd 8
256logged any parsing errors in the
257.Nm
258file.
259.Sh FILES
260.Bl -tag -width /etc/exports -compact
261.It Pa /etc/exports
262the default remote mount-point file
263.El
264.Sh EXAMPLES
265.Bd -literal -offset indent
266/usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends
267/usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16
268/usr -ro -mapall=nobody
269/u -maproot=bin: -network 131.104.48 -mask 255.255.255.0
270/u2 -maproot=root friends
271/u2 -alldirs -network cis-net -mask cis-mask
272/cdrom -alldirs,quiet,ro -network 192.168.33.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
273.Ed
274.Pp
275Given that
276.Sy /usr ,
277.Sy /u
278and
279.Sy /u2
280are
281local filesystem mount points, the above example specifies the following:
282.Sy /usr
283is exported to hosts
284.Em friends
285where friends is specified in the netgroup file
286with users mapped to their remote credentials and
287root mapped to uid 0 and group 10.
288It is exported read-write and the hosts in ``friends'' can mount either /usr
289or /usr/local.
290It is exported to
291.Em 131.104.48.16
292and
293.Em grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca
294with users mapped to their remote credentials and
295root mapped to the user and groups associated with ``daemon'';
296it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with
297all users mapped to the user and groups associated with ``nobody''.
298.Pp
299.Sy /u
300is exported to all hosts on the subnetwork
301.Em 131.104.48
302with root mapped to the uid for ``bin'' and with no group access.
303.Pp
304.Sy /u2
305is exported to the hosts in ``friends'' with root mapped to uid and groups
306associated with ``root'';
307it is exported to all hosts on network ``cis-net'' allowing mounts at any
308directory within /u2.
309.Pp
310The filesystem rooted at
311.Sy /cdrom
312will exported read-only to the entire network 192.168.33.0/24, including
313all its subdirectories.
314Since
315.Sy /cdrom
316is the conventional mountpoint for a CD-ROM device, this export will
317fail if no CD-ROM medium is currently mounted there since that line
318would then attempt to export a subdirectory of the root filesystem
319with the
320.Fl alldirs
321option which is not allowed.
322The
323.Fl quiet
324option will then suppress the error message for this condition that
325would normally be syslogged.
326As soon as an actual CD-ROM is going to be mounted,
327.Xr mount 8
328will notify
329.Xr mountd 8
330about this situation, and the
331.Sy /cdrom
332filesystem will be exported as intented.
333Note that without using the
334.Fl alldirs
335option, the export would always succeed.
336While there is no CD-ROM medium mounted under
337.Sy /cdrom ,
338it would export the (normally empty) directory
339.Sy /cdrom
340of the root filesystem instead.
341.Sh SEE ALSO
342.Xr netgroup 5 ,
343.Xr mountd 8 ,
344.Xr nfsd 8 ,
345.Xr showmount 8
346.Sh BUGS
347The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
348must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
349server mount point.
350It is recommended that all exported directories within the same server
351filesystem be specified on adjacent lines going down the tree.
352You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a netgroup.
353Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can normally
354circumvent the problem.
355