As far as I know, the only mapping done by NFS is the "squashing" that maps to anonuid and anongid. If you only needed to map to one user id, you could change the anonuid and anongid options in the /etc/exports file. The two more elegant solutions I can think of are to use NIS/YP to serve the passwd and shadow files from the server, or to use ugidd, a program designed specifically for NFS UID/GID mapping. ugidd would be the best option, except that it does not come with Slackware, and may be a security risk. If you want to try building it from source, look on the Debian page at <http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ugidd.html> and download the source from the bottom of the page. I have no experience at all with ugidd, so I can't help you at all with what to expect.
The first "elegant" option I listed, using NIS/YP passwd & shadow serving, I have done myself, and Slackware comes with all the packages required. On the downside, configuring it is rather complicated, and will require editing the passwd and shadow files on the client. But if you are careful, and keep backups, you shouldn't have any problems with that. If you want to look into using NIS/YP, read the HOWTO in (Slackware specific) /usr/doc/ Linux-HOWTOs/NIS-HOWTO, or online at The Linux Document Project <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html>. Hope that helps, Conway S. Smith --- Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings: Been using NFS for years with little problems until I > discovered one client machine that has different uid's than the > server.. No matter how much I read or try I can't figure out how to > work with files on the client with, typically, uid 1001 for user > haltec and the server with user haltec uid 1000.. If the user/uid > matches on each machine - no problem of course.. > > I've tried the anon stuff till blue in the face but every time I copy > a file from the server that has the correct owner it ends up on the > client with the owner matching the different uid... So far I've been > chown'ing on the client, which seems to work OK, but there must be a > better way - somehow, because every owner in the entire directory > tree has to be changed.. > > There must be a file that maps the user to the uid.. /etc/passwd > lists them of course, but editing it doesn't solve the problem and > creates _many_ others.. :^(.. > > I have the Linux Network Administrators Guide, but it mentions files > that are missing from Slackware 8.0/9.0.. No real help there.. > > If the above makes sense, is there anyone accomplishing what I want > to do?? TIA, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18) > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable > . ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
