On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > Golden rule with nfs: > > > > It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or > > root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow > > files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility > > to change uids and gids on the fly. > > man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the map_daemon > option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server and client. This > needs the rpc.ugidd to be running on server side. > I never did this, I don't even know where to get rpc.ugidd from, and I'm > pretty sure it won't work at all with opensolaris, but at least with linux > it should be possible then, theoretically. > > Wonko
That's good to know - I don't have anything like that here in my man pages. I have nfs-utils-1.2.0, what version are you running? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
