On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an > NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) > be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with > local security files. > > I have four users: "alvin", "benny", "charles", and "david". > I have several groups: "users" and "chefs" and "busboys". > > I want to define an NFS share that "alvin" and "benny" can use. My > *expectation* at the time I'm setting this up is that any files > appearing on those shares will have a group-owner of "chefs". > > So I go through, and ensure that "alvin" and "benny" each have the same > uid on both computers. I go through and ensure that "chefs" has the same > gid on both computers. > > Is there a good way for me to ensure that alvin doesn't create, on the > shares, a file owned by the busboys group? > > (The reason I don't want this to happen is that I've taken no steps to > ensure that both computers have the same groupid for the "busboys" > group. I don't want the resulting permissions confusion to ensue.) >
You may want to look at this recent thread on debian-user, in particular this reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03439.html Note: I'm no NFS expert, so maybe this is not what you're looking for. HTH -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
