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I am accessing an NFSv4 mount via Kerberos as root. Why isn it using the credentials I got via kinit?

April 26, 2017credentials GOT Kerberos kinit Mount nfsv4

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I am accessing an NFSv4 mount via Kerberos as root. Why isn it using the credentials I got via kinit?

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ALL accesses as root on a Linux client (uid=0) currently use the machine credentials, not any credentials obtained via kinit. We plan to change this behavior when moving to use the new key ring kernel support to store credentials and contexts.