Re: How to control the order of different export options for different client formats?

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:38:14PM +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>Having a priority option would be a very good idea - and may be in
> >>the meantime the exports man page should be updated with info about
> >>the current priority ordering?
> >
> >
> >Sounds good.  Could you send in a patch?
> 
> Here's an attempt - based on the info from Max Matveev
> <makc@redhat.com> earlier in this thread

> 
> James Pearson
> 
> --- exports.man.dist    2010-09-28 13:24:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ exports.man 2011-05-20 14:29:45.555314605 +0100
> @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@
>  '''.B \-\-public\-root
>  '''option. Multiple specifications of a public root will be ignored.
>  .PP
> +.SS Matched Client Priories

Priorities?

But could we just combine this with the previous section--and make sure
the different possibilities are listed there in the correct priority
order to start off with.

That'd also mean adding a new subsection for the "anonymous" case.

--b.

> +The order in which the different \fIMachine Name Formats\fR are matched
> +against clients is in the priority order: \fIhostname, IP address
> or networks,
> +wildcards, netgroup and anonymous\fR. Entries at the same level are matched
> +in the same order in which they appear in \fI/etc/exports\fR.
>  .SS RPCSEC_GSS security
>  You may use the special strings "gss/krb5", "gss/krb5i", or "gss/krb5p"
>  to restrict access to clients using rpcsec_gss security.  However, this
> 
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