You can remap the uid's through NIS, but that seems to be really a big
pain. It is much easier to ensure that the NIS users use a different
uid range than the system accounts. On most systems system accounts use
uids below 100 (and more recently below 500). On mandrake on the other
hand it seems that some use the lower 500s. (We are running into the
same problem having just converted from SuSE to Mandrake. I would
suggest that you change your ids for NIS users (fabian etc.) to be above
600 or 700 or so and then change your MINUID to that same number. (If
all the files own by the users are in /home it isn't that difficult to
change the ownership to the new uid.) The same of course with the gids.
Andreas
Peña Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set up a NIS server an client by the first time and
> I am having a client problem with it. I have been following the steps
> provided at Mandrake Campus:
>
> http://www.mandrakecampus.org/
>
> The problem is a conflict between the server's groups' id numbers
> and their clients' counterparts. When issuing "ls -l" in the same
> directory shared through NFS one always gets different files group
> ownwer. The shared partition is /home/. On the server side everything
> works right:
>
> But on the client side, the gid 504 belongs to ntools
>
> I want to share through the local network files for authentication
> porpouses. So, there is the following entrace in the /var/yp/Makefile
> file in the server:
>
> all: passwd group shadow
>
> Besides that there are as well:
>
> MINUID=500
> MINGID=500
> MERGE_PASSWD=false
> MERGE_GROUP=true
>
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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Chair of Science
Concordia University College of Alberta
http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
