UID mapping for NFS

[Bill Davidsen]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
>> I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with
>> "wrong" UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly
>> those installed from a "live" CD which created one or more odd IDs
>> when "install to disk" was used.
> 
> In theory NFSv4 does the remapping, but I coudn't find it either.  It
> was far easier and faster to run a "find / -user uid -print" and just fix
> up the uids.
> 
The problem is that it becomes painfully complex, before I can make 'joe' user 
500 I have to move the user who is 500 to another uid... and as you say nfs4 
seems to support a lookup security model.

The issue may be that nfs4 doesn't seem to be working, mount.nfs4 gives a 
failure, so perhaps job one will be to find out why the export isn't working. 
NFS is so insecure by nature that it would be nice not to fight pseudo-security.

> It is things like this I miss from netbsd and openbsd.  They assigned
> UID's to all their packages (eg. rpm's) and it didn't matter which order
> one installed things in, the UID's were always the same.
> 
Thanks for the thoughts, I will keep looking.

> -wolfgang


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