From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 6: 1:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snail.ite.mh.se (snail.nts.mh.se [193.10.250.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBB814DCD for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forda@ite.mh.se) Received: from oden (forda@oden [10.14.4.5]) by snail.ite.mh.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA16617 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:00:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:58:19 +0100 (MET) From: Daniel Forsgren X-Sender: forda@oden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: File ownerships Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm using a FBSD3.4 machine as an access gateway to a cluster of other FBSD machines. Cluster disks are NFS-mounted on the access machine so that users may access their home directories on all machines through Samba/ftp via the gateway. It works fine, but I've noticed one little problem. Since file ownership is not determined by user names, but rather by UID number, I'm required to ensure that all users have the same UID on all machines. Otherwise file ownerships in the gateway directory (where the remote disk is mounted) will not match the actual file ownership on the remote machine. Is it possible to make FBSD determine file ownership using user names instead of UIDs in those directories (I guess it isn't). Of course, I could duplicate passwd from the gateway to all other machines each time an user is added to avoid disrepancies, but that would kill off the possibility of letting users have accounts only on a subset of the cluster machines.. Thanks in advance, /Daniel F. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message