setup nfs w/o synchronizing uids?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 13:27:39 UTC 2011


Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to setup nfs (server+clients) without syncing uid's?  Is it
>> possible to do this without having to setup nfs4+kerberos?  If so, how?
> 
> You didn't mention the full context of what you're trying to do. Is
> this for a simple home network or corporate environment? You could
> probably make everything you're trying to share world RW to work
> around the UID/GID sync, but it obviously would not be secure at all.
> 
> Richard

Say small corporate.  I was hoping to be able to use uid/gid mapping, which 
seems to be part of nfs4?



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