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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Thanks Sami! |
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Glad to be of help. |
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> On 4/3/06, Sami Samhuri <sami@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> When you see numbers such as 501 in the directory listing that means the user or |
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>> group who had that user id is not found in /etc/passwd or /etc/group. |
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> OK, that means it's using the passwd file local to that specific |
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> machine then. |
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Exactly. |
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>> The user id's on all the machines you use with NFS have to be the same. I found |
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>> this in the HP-UX documentation via google: |
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>> >>>> From: http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1153/ch02s01.html#bghdjbfa |
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> OK, I think you've hit on a potential problem here. Problem is what is |
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> the best way to address this on machines that have been running for a |
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> long time? Can I safely edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group and then do |
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> chown -R commands to change the ownership of files on the systems |
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> after I make all the IDs and groups identical? |
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As long as all of the files in eg. /home/mark are owned by mark then I don't |
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think you'll have a problem. I've done this without anything bad happening to my |
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box, but I won't make you any promises. ;) |
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I didn't know about the useful anonuid and anongid options that Conway |
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mentioned. I think if you set that up as he described that will be best (I'm |
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planning to do the same now). If you add any additional boxes later you won't |
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have to worry about uids matching. |
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