[plug] NFS permissions / ownership issue

[Bernard Blackham]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:40:55PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> Server uses Debian and shares a directory /data.   Files and directories 
> within /data are owned by fred:fred for example.   (Recall that by default 
> Debian sets up a new user to have the uid and gid the same, in this case 
> 1001)
[...]
> the "fred" account got gid 1002
[...]
> Question:   what is the SIMPLEST way out of this conundrum?

On the NFS server, you could use a static uid/gid map:

/data (rw,map_static=/etc/nfs/some.map)

where some.map looks like:
gid 1003 1001

man exports for details.

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>