Re: need help with NFS and user authentication

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:03:53 -0800

The volume is mounted with automount. I never enter credentials of any kind currently, since I'm using sys authentication, which is based only on user ids. I was curious about how to change that situation, but this is working at the moment.
What would I gain by having the share mounted on my desktop as opposed to anywhere else? I guess I don't follow that part of your question. 

On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:


Not to seem like the lazy admin I am, but why not just put a drive  
shortcut
on your desktop, or write a bash script in the profile to auto mount  
the NFS
server? Or are you looking for a way to use single sign on under  
LDAP/KRB so
your not prompted for your keychain password when first using the  
shared

drive?

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Alex

Dean
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Subject: need help with NFS and user authentication

I have set up an Ubuntu file server on my home network.  I have 2 OSX

workstations (mine and my wife's), and an Ubuntu laptop.  We each  
have an
account on each computer.  I'm trying to figure out how to allow my  
user
account on any computer to mount my home directory on the file  
server, and
to allow my wife's account on any computer mount her home directory  
on the

file server.


I don't want to move our home directories entirely onto the  
fileserver.
Primarily we want to continue using the local machines as we always  
have.
We just want to add the ability to easily store files on the network  
and

have them accessible from any other machine.


I have had no problems creating exports on the file server, and I've  
had no
problems mounting those exports from the client machines.  The  
problems
thusfar have been uid mismatches.  I could probably change uids  
everywhere

so they all match on all machines, but this seems 1.
klunky and 2. really insecure.


I think there are ways to solve this kind of problem with Kerberos  
or LDAP,
but those are technologies I know very little about.  If someone  
could point
me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.  How would you  
solve
this problem?  I'm happy to research and learn what I need to learn,  
but I

find I'm having a hard time even getting started.

thanks,
alex

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