bug#39670: closed (Cannot mount NFS share as user or root)

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> Re: Cannot mount NFS share as user or root
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> Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:33:51 -0500
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> Hello Nathan,
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> Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> writes:
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> > bash-5.0$ mount /media/store
> > mount: /media/store: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs,
> > cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program
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> > /etc/config.scm:
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> > (file-system
> >              (mount-point "/media/store")
> >              (device "gentooserver:/")
> >              (type "nfs4")
> >              (mount? #f)
> >              (create-mount-point? #t)
> >              (options "rw,_netdev,noauto,user,lazytime,exec,tcp"))
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> > /etc/fstab:
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> > gentooserver:/ /media/store nfs4 rw,_netdev,noauto,user,lazytime,exec,tcp
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> > nfs-utils is installed:
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> > bash-5.0$ guix package -i nfs-utils
> > The following package will be upgraded:
> >    nfs-utils 2.4.2 → 2.4.2
> > /gnu/store/chmbpkh0gvvmdhgwjw7rpl63f99mv7i6-nfs-utils-2.4.2
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> > nothing to be done
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> I encountered this too.  Perhaps we should patch some references to
> mount.nfs (from nfs-utils) in the util-linux package which provides
> 'mount'.
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> In the meantime, you should use "mount.nfs" directly.
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> I'm opening an issue to track progress on this.
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> Thank you,
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> Maxim
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> Hi!
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> > Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> writes:
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> >> Right, but it's more inconvenient than just clicking the share in thunar
> >> and it mounting. Actually, I can't mount it without doing "sudo" first,
> >> despite having the "user" fstab flag set. This actually might be a separate
> >> issue, but I'm not sure.
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> > That's a good point.  We should try to make this simpler.  The mount.nfs
> > binary needs to be setuid root to allow unprivileged users to mount NFS
> > file systems.  Unfortunately, the mount command (which we already define
> > as setuid-root) only looked for helpers under /run/current/profile/sbin.
> > This is now fixed in commit def6e2ae4619587114383b3f8fd9f3cf8310b4b9
> > (which had to be made on core-updates).
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> > I've sent a patch for review which proposes to add these setuid-root binaries 
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> > desktop users out-of-the-box on Guix System, which only adds about 4 MiB
> > to the almost 3 GiB closure of the lightweight-desktop.tmpl system [0].
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> > As mentioned before, it depends on a change to util-linux that had to be
> > made on the core-updates branch, so it won't be usable until the next
> > core-updates merge.
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> This patch has now been merged with commit d40c9f6c85.
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> Closing!
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> Thank you,
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> Maxim
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