Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:14:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: sabre@sabre.dhs.org (Sabre) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Easy NFS problem :/ Message-ID: <199909260214.WAA48199@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251935300.4936-100000@sabre.dhs.org> from Sabre at "Sep 25, 1999 08:15:21 pm"
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Sabre wrote, > ok, I took out the rw (Which I thought meant Read-Write ;) Now on to the > UID's :) I thought that when I put the clients IP in, that the server > would give full permissions to who ever tried to access it from the > client. How do I tell it which uid's to allow when they have seperate > passwd files (I was going to set this up using NIS, so should I have done > that first?) > Sabre IP address or hostname, the server, by default, calculates permissions by whatever uid's the clients report, with the exception of root mapping to nobody. If you are logged into a client and you have uid 1001, that is what the server will use to see if you have permission to do an action. If you are going to do NIS, yes, you probably want to do that before you try to get NFS working perfectly. Once NIS is up, usernames on both platforms will correspond to the same uid's. That way, 'joeuser' has the same permissions to access files on a NFS client that he would if he had logged right into the server. That's kinda the whole idea of these utilities, BTW. Now, if you _really_ want to make everything on the mounted systems completely controlled by everyone (and this is not recommended), you can use the -mapall option and make all users have the permissions of root on the mounted filesystem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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