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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:03:19
Message-Id: 200907281001.52656.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings by Alex Schuster
1 On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon writes:
3 > > Golden rule with nfs:
4 > >
5 > > It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or
6 > > root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow
7 > > files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility
8 > > to change uids and gids on the fly.
9 >
10 > man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the map_daemon
11 > option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server and client. This
12 > needs the rpc.ugidd to be running on server side.
13 > I never did this, I don't even know where to get rpc.ugidd from, and I'm
14 > pretty sure it won't work at all with opensolaris, but at least with linux
15 > it should be possible then, theoretically.
16 >
17 > Wonko
18
19 That's good to know - I don't have anything like that here in my man pages.
20
21 I have nfs-utils-1.2.0, what version are you running?
22
23 --
24 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>