NFSv4 with ACL, the default permissions are not obeyed

Question

1. The question

I have a directory dir, which has (NFS) ACL default permissions, so that every file and folder created in it can be written by the user 1001too by default. This directory is shared on NFS v4.

How do I make sure, that every file and folder I create through NFS inherits this permission?

2. Commands I ran exactly

I ran the following commands on the NFS client side.

client@nfsclient $ nfs4_getfacl dir

# file: dir
A::OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy
A::1001:rwaDxtcy
A::GROUP@:rxtcy
A::EVERYONE@:rxtcy
A:fdi:OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy
A:fdi:1001:rwaDxtcy
A:fdi:GROUP@:rxtcy
A:fdi:EVERYONE@:rxtcy

However, when I create a new file in it, it's permissions don't allow user 1001 to write this file.

client@nfsclient $ touch dir/file
client@nfsclient $ nfs4_getfacl dir/file

# file: dir/file
A::OWNER@:rwatTcCy
A::1001:rtcy
A::GROUP@:rtcy
A::EVERYONE@:rtcy

Why don't the user 1001 have write permission to dir/file in this case?

When I look at this same dir/file on the NFS server, the permissions somehow don't allow it to write because of the mask.

server@nfsserver $ getfacl dir/file
# file: dir/file
# owner: client
# group: client
user::rw-
user:1001:rwx                   #effective:r--
group::r-x                      #effective:r--
mask::r--
other::r--

Is there a way to make sure that on file creation the mask is correct?

3. It works on serverside

When I run the same exact commands on serverside, the default permissions are obeyed.

server@nfsserver $ getfacl dir
# file: dir
# owner: client
# group: client
user::rwx
user:1001:rwx
group::r-x
mask::rwx
other::r-x
default:user::rwx
default:user:1001:rwx
default:group::r-x
default:mask::rwx
default:other::r-x

And it creates the permissions just right.

server@nfsserver $ touch dir/file
server@nfsserver $ getfacl dir/file
# file: dir/file
# owner: server
# group: server
user::rw-
user:1001:rwx                   #effective:rw-
group::r-x                      #effective:r--
mask::rw-
other::r--

I'm using NFS v4, and ext4 filesystem.

Answer 1

For this to work you need identical UIDs and GIDs on both systems. Ideally, you should run some sort of domain software to accomplish this (LDAP, NIS, NISplus, etc.)

There are a number of other Q&A threads on these topics if you look at https://serverfault.com or https://unix.stackexchange.com/

If you don't have a system like that in place it might be easier for you to make identical GIDs on each system. Set group permissions. Then put the proper users in to the proper groups. That way the users can change but the group based permissions stay. This makes administration of ACLs much easier than specifying per-user permissions all over the place.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I was not able to find any good solution. The only thing I could do is the following.

Set umask to at most 002 on the client.

client@nfsclient $ umask 002

This will set the mask on the server properly, so it will make any default permissions correctly too. However, this will create writable files for the group by default.

I also tried sshfs, and the exact same thing happens there too.

See also https://serverfault.com/questions/544194/nfs-v4-acl-inheritance-problems-i-flag-set-but-not-wanted/544771.

Answer 3

hey i know its a old threat but i want to point out that with nfs 4.2 it works on my system rhel8. I can set default acls with permissions and the umask doesnt mask them away.

On Server:

vi /etc/exports
/export/c       -root_squash,rw [Client]
/export/d       -root_squash,rw [Client]

getfacl Group1
# file: Group1
# owner: root
# group: nfs
# flags: -st
user::rwx
group::rwx
group:access:r-x
mask::rwx
other::---
default:user::rwx
default:group::rwx
default:group:access:r-x
default:mask::rwx
default:other::---

The Directory Group1 exists on Directory c and d

On Client:

vi /etc/fstab
[server]:/export/c         /mnt/nfs/c      nfs4    defaults,nfsvers=4.0    0       0
[server]:/export/d         /mnt/nfs/d      nfs4    defaults,nfsvers=4.2    0       0


#User with group nfs
umask 0027

mkdir /mnt/nfs/c/Group1/a
mkdir /mnt/nfs/d/Group1/a

ll -d /mnt/nfs/c/Group1/a
drwxr-s---. 2 Daniel nfs 6 Nov 25 16:02 a

ll -d /mnt/nfs/d/Group1/a
drwxrws---. 2 Daniel nfs 6 Nov 26 09:05 a

Correct me if i am wrong but i also testet it on nfsvers=4.1 and it also wont work, so i assume that thing got fixed in nfsv4.2