Re: nfs and non-matching users
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:56:28PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'd like to have read/write nfs access to an old SuSE machine I have
> running, but I don't have matching UIDs on the machines. I suppose NIS
> is the correct answer, but I was not planning on doing that right now.
> Also the two machines have different UIDs. In otherwords, if on the nfs
> server machine my username was bill and on the client is moseley, but
> I'd like to give user moseley full rw access to the server moseley
> account via NFS.
It sticks in mind that the userland NFS server had some support for
uid/gid remapping. This is not really a normal feature of NFS. I think
there are also some patches floating around somewhere to allow uid
remapping in the kernel NFS client, but nothing recent.
--
Michael Heironimus
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