Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/28/2005 12:06:07 PM: > Here's the way I did that for my machines: > > 1) Leave the key drive a fat file system. I hoped not to have to do this :-( Why can't you use ext3? Do you need fat so you can use the uid/gid below (your "2") > 2) Use autofs to mount the drive when needed with the following fat > mount options; > uid=<your uid>,gid=<your gid>,umask=0177 > you set the uid and gid to your ids on each machine. The mask > makes the file perms 600, which ssh wants. > > 3) create a sym link in you .ssh directoy to the appropiate file in > the automounted filesystem. > > I used mine this way for quite a while. I was eventually able to make > all my uids the same. Then I switched to ext2 filesystem on the key > drive. how do you do it with ext2? Thanks Joe -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
