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Operating Systems Linux Debian NFS problems (Debian) Post 302282289 by Neo on Friday 30th of January 2009 01:03:35 PM
Old 01-30-2009
identd is a process that typically runs out of your inetd server. It keeps track of what user is running what TCP service, and then reports this to whoever requests it. I don't recall if it is required for NFS, so this might be off track..... if it is, I apologize.


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Many people misunderstand the usefulness of identd, and so disable it or block all off site requests for it. identd is not there to help out remote sites. There is no way of knowing if the data you get from the remote identd is correct or not. There is no authentication in identd requests.

Why would you want to run it then? Because it helps you out, and is another data-point in tracking. If your identd is not compromised, then you know it's telling remote sites the user-name or UID of people using TCP services. If the admin at a remote site comes back to you and tells you user so-and-so was trying to hack into their site, you can easily take action against that user. If you are not running identd, you will have to look at lots and lots of logs, figure out who was on at the time, and in general take a lot more time to track down the user.

The identd that ships with most distributions is more configurable than many people think. You can disable it for specific users (they can make a .noident file), you can log all identd requests (We recommend it), you can even have identd return a UID instead of a user name or even NO-USER.
 

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rpcdebug(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       rpcdebug(8)

NAME
rpcdebug - set and clear NFS and RPC kernel debug flags SYNOPSIS
rpcdebug -vh rpcdebug -m module rpcdebug -m module -s flags... rpcdebug -m module -c flags... DESCRIPTION
The rpcdebug command allows an administrator to set and clear the Linux kernel's NFS client and server debug flags. Setting these flags causes the kernel to emit messages to the system log in response to NFS activity; this is typically useful when debugging NFS problems. The first form in the synopsis can be used to list all available debug flags. The second form shows the currently set debug flags for the given module. The third form sets one or more flags, and the fourth form clears one or more flags. The value all may be used to set or clear all the flags for the given module. OPTIONS
-c Clear the given debug flags. -h Print a help message and exit. When combined with the -v option, also prints the available debug flags. -m module Specify which module's flags to set or clear. Available modules are: nfsd The NFS server. nfs The NFS client. nlm The Network Lock Manager, in either an NFS client or server. rpc The Remote Procedure Call module, in either an NFS client or server. -s Set the given debug flags. -v Increase the verbosity of rpcdebug's output. FILES
/proc/sys/sunrpc/{rpc,nfs,nfsd,nlm}_debug procfs-based interface to kernel debug flags. SEE ALSO
rpc.nfsd(8), nfs(5), syslogd(8). BUGS
Bugs can be found or reported at http://nfs.sf.net/. AUTHOR
Program by Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> and <frederic.jolly@bull.ext.net>. Manpage by Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>. 5 Jul 2006 rpcdebug(8)
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