THANKS BRIAN
From: Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [uug] nfs - uids and gids Date: 13 Mar 2003 17:22:30 -0700
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:02, Pepe Torralba wrote:
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>
> I exported a directory in SCO and mounted it in a digital 4.0D machine.
> Everything was OK but the uids and gids of the files in that directory when
> I list them in the client machine.
> I think that the client looks for these in its /etc/passwd and thats why it
> shows wrong user and group names or non at all (just numbers).
> I include a line in the client's /etc/passwd file for a new user with the
> same uid and gid as in the server's /etc/passwd and when I ls -l the
> directory the user and group name of the file where ok.
That's just what I did when I set up my own linux machine at work. It wasn't on NIS with the real production machines, but I still wanted to nfs mount my home directory and use it. It doesn't hurt anything as far as I know.
Bryan
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