[PLUG] NFS Permission Q

[Kyle Accardi]

Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> Honestly, there's no substitute for a consistent uid/gid set across 
> hosts. Until there's a common client/server mechanism for agreeing on 
> authentication and authorization (NFS v4 maybe?), you'll have to 
> suffer with sync-ed passwd files, NIS, or LDAP.
> 
> 
> NIS isn't trivial by any means, but it's not that hard:
> 
>   http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> On a small network, I'd just sync the passwd and shadow files, or 
> parts thereof.


Yeah, just read about NIS in Marcel Gagne's "Linux System Administration" 
and it looked messier than I want.  (Haven't looked at LDAP yet, it's always 
been on the list).  Maintaining uid/gid will be simple enough on this network.


Cheers,
Kyle Accardi