Building user-space NFSv4 utilities

(Note: recent Fedora, Debian/Sid, and Ubuntu/Dapper contain some NFSv4/rpcsec_gss support, which may be sufficient for your purposes; don't install from source unless you want to check for bugfixes or new feature in our very latest experimental code.)

(Note also: we no longer maintain an experimental Debian apt archive.)

Unless otherwise stated, all tarballs can be built and installed with the standard

tar -xzvf source.tar.gz
cd source
./configure && make && make install

patch -p1 <path_to_patch

Instructions:

• Install ldap development libraries and headers. (These are provided on Debian, for example, by libldap2-dev.)
• Build and install libnfsidmap from the nfsidmap tarball using the instructions.
• Install libevent development libraries and headers, if not already installed. (These are provided on Debian, for example, by libevent-dev.)
• Install MIT kerberos development libraries and headers, if not already installed. (These are provided on Debian, for example, by libkrb53 and libkrb5-dev).
• Build and install libgssglue from the libgssglue tarball.
• Build and install librpcsecgss from the librpcsecgss tarball.
• Apply the nfs-utils patches and build. (Note that "--enable-mount" is the default starting with nfs-utils-1.1.0.)

  tar -xzvf nfs-utils-xxx.tar.gz
  cd nfs-utils-xxx
  ./configure && make && make install
  

  This will install mountd, mount.nfs, mount.nfs4, idmapd, exportfs, rpc.gssd, and rpc.svcgssd, among others. Note that util-linux patches are no longer needed, as nfs-utils includes all the mount code necessary.
• Create an /etc/gssapi_mech.conf file; see doc/gssapi_mech.conf in the libgssglue source tree for an example.
• Create an /etc/idmapd.conf file; see utils/idmapd/idmapd.conf in the nfs-utils source tree for an example.