Bug 136779

Summary:	Misleading NFS mount denied error message
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Steve Dickson <steved>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Warren Togami 2004-10-22 11:05:46 UTC

Description of problem:
When you an attempt is made to mount a directory via NFS to a path not
permitted from the client address, the error message in
/var/log/messages is misleading and confusing.

Oct 22 00:58:30 wombat rpc.mountd: bad path in mount request from
172.31.16.236: "/home/warren"

Contrast this with the informative error message when a mount path is
not listed in /etc/exports.

Oct 22 01:03:31 wombat rpc.mountd: refused mount request from
ibmlaptop.lan for /home/builder (/): not exported

The former error message should something like say:

Oct 22 00:58:30 wombat rpc.mountd: refused mount request from
172.31.16.236: for "/home/warren": host not allowed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils-1.0.6-39

Comment 1 Steve Dickson 2005-10-31 21:13:04 UTC

This is fixed in later version of nfs-utils