[PLUG] how are uid/gid mapped between NFS server and client?

[Chris Jantzen]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:02:19AM -0800, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:02:43AM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> > 
> > Please pardon the clueless NFS-ignorant question:
> > 
> > If the uid's aren't synchronized between the NFS server and client,
> > what happens?  Suppose user jdoe is uid 1001 on the NFS client and uid
> > 1005 on the NFS server, what uid will own jdoe's files on the NFS
> > server?

Well, technically 1005 will own jdoes files on the server. But if jdoe
on the *client* writes to a directory on the server, then:

> 
> 1001
> 
> Assuming 1001 has permissions to write to said directory on the server.
> 


-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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