24 Mar
2005
24 Mar
'05
4:11 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 12:46 +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Hi all,
I have a central directory owned by user 'balloon' on my server. This can be nfs mounted onto serveral other computers, each with a user 'balloon'. However, the server UID for balloon is different from that of the clients. I'm reluctant to start changing things in /etc/passwd. Is there an elegant way to state the nfs mount with username permissions rather than number?
Thanks, Jenny
How about making your central fileserver a NIS server? Then on your local machines run ypbind. You'll need to delete the local user entries from /etc/passwd on the client machines.
This might help http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO
Chris
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