[olug] nfs user map issues

Ryan O'Rourke ryano at ch-gifts.com
Wed Jun 16 21:52:22 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 12:02, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> You can do UID mapping in NFS 'man exports' gives an explaination.  I 
> haven't done it because I usually set my machines up with the same uids 
> but when it isn't feasible or practical you should be able to map_static 
> or map_daemon options in the exports file on the nfs server.

What about just editing /etc/passwd? Can I just make all the UIDs in
/etc/passwd identical on all machines and expect every everything to
remain working as normal?



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