···44=========55Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to66translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves77-performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. Id mapper will88-user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result. The program99-/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the1010-translation and initialize a key with the resulting information.77+performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two88+ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key99+or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon.11101212- NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this1313- feature.1111+NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the1212+result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should1313+only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key1414+type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key1515+method.1616+1717+If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not1818+configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the1919+legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored2020+in a custom NFS idmap cache.2121+14221523===========1624Configuring