Gary Nielson wrote: > I am trying to understand how to deal with users, groups and permissions > with directories that are mounted via nfs from a remote server. I am > mounting a subdirectory under Irix 6.5, using the xfs filesystem, from > Redhat 6.2. > > The uid and gids mean different things on the remote Irix box, so I am > getting the group "games" listed when I list all the files in the mounted > directory, but when viewed locally on the Irix box, the group is "users." > > On the Linux system, I have chmod'd 2775 all the directories used by a > group called "product" so that each user, when creating a file under this > subdirectory structure, will create a file with a user named "product" so > everyone else in that group can read and write it. > > I have been looking at the man page for mount and am trying to figure out > if I am going in the right direction in looking and setuid and setgid, for > example. Is there a way to fool my Linux box into reading users and groups > off the mounted Irix box to comply with the "products" group under > Linux? Is this making any sense? I want everyone in "products" to be able > to read and write files and for the world to be able to read them. > > I confess to being confused about all this and would appreciate any > guidance. > > Gary Gary I have been struggling with this too. Wat I have come to find out mainly from this list but from reading aand rereading the docs, is that NFS sends the userid groupid in all requests. That is the numeric value and NOT the username and groupname. I was told that this is just the way it works and that I need to set up NIS to keep the passwd files in sync. I have done som prelimiary reading but have not had the chance to actually install NIS yet. Hope this helps. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
