Alan McKinnon writes: > Golden rule with nfs: > > It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or > root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow > files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility > to change uids and gids on the fly.
man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the map_daemon option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server and client. This needs the rpc.ugidd to be running on server side. I never did this, I don't even know where to get rpc.ugidd from, and I'm pretty sure it won't work at all with opensolaris, but at least with linux it should be possible then, theoretically. Wonko