Re: [PATCH 0/5] nfs-utils: provide audit-logging of NFSv4 access

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>]

Hey!

A couple comments... 

On 2/24/21 9:42 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> When NFSv3 is used mountd provides logs of successful and failed mount
> attempts which can be used for auditing.
> When NFSv4 is used there are no such logs as NFSv4 does not have a
> distinct "mount" request.
> 
> However mountd still knows about which filesysytems are being accessed
> from which clients, and can actually provide more reliable logs than it
> currently does, though they must be more verbose - with periodic "is
> being accessed" message replacing a single "was mounted" message.
> 
> This series adds support for that logging, and adds some related
> improvements to make the logs as useful as possible.
> 
> NeilBrown
> 
> ---
> 
> NeilBrown (5):
>       mountd: reject unknown client IP when !use_ipaddr.
>       mountd: Don't proactively add export info when fh info is requested.
>       mountd: add logging for authentication results for accesses.
I wonder if we should mention setting "debug=auth" enables
this logging in the mountd manpage 

>       mountd: add --cache-use-ipaddr option to force use_ipaddr
>       mountd: make default ttl settable by option
These two probably need to be put into the nfs.conf file 
and the nfs.conf man page since the conf_get_num()
and conf_get_bool() calls were added.

Finally, I'll add this to my plate, but I'm thinking
the new log-auth and ttl flags probably should be 
introduce into nfsv4.exported.

I didn't port over the use-ipaddr flag to exportd,
since I though it was only used in the v3 mount path
but may that was an oversight on my part. 

Thoughts?

steved.
> 
> 
>  support/export/auth.c      |  4 +++
>  support/export/cache.c     | 32 +++++++++++------
>  support/export/v4root.c    |  3 +-
>  support/include/exportfs.h |  3 +-
>  support/nfs/exports.c      |  4 ++-
>  utils/mountd/mountd.c      | 29 +++++++++++++++-
>  utils/mountd/mountd.man    | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
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