Hello managers,
my original message was:
>Some of our ALPHA's users have their group and user identifiers on another
>computer (with LINUX) in our local network different from these on the ALPHA
>while they need read and write access to their home directories in LINUX
>through NFS.
>
>MY QUESTION:
>___________
>Is there any facility with some proxy function to map gid and uid on the
>client side to these on the server side in order to provide access to these
>users without granting it to the world and considering that no NIS available
>on the local network. (I guess, it should be on the server side, if any;
>so I'm a little wrong in my appeal to DU forum, however many managers concern
>both UNIX systems, it's a reason why I address the question to "MY" list).
>Besides, I'd like to avoid changing their identification on the ALPHA.
>
>Additional information:
>
>DU 3.2.c with C2.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Irene.
I have received the following five answers:
Charles Vachon <cvachon_at_mrn.gouv.qc.ca> wrote about the very thing I need,
I think, because a server function (in a given case) falls to the LINUX
system:
>There is a daemon call ugidd that does uid mapping for NFS. I don`t know if
>it is available on DU, but it is for Linux systems. Go to the Linux
>Software Map at http://www.linux.org/help/lsm.html and enter ugidd in the
>search form.
>
>Hope this helps :-)
Peter Stern <peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il> and
Santosh Krishnan x2815 <santosh_at_heplinux1.uta.edu>
solved this problem simply by just making the uid the same on their Alpha
machines as the user's uid on their other unix machines or vice versa.
Phil Farrell <farrell_at_pangea.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>I think that you must conform the user and group ids of the NFS client
>to the server, or permissions will not be set correctly for file access.
>
>You don't need to use NIS to do this; you can easily write some shell
>scripts to run from crontab to periodically extract the /etc/passwd
>records for the users on the clients and send them over to the client
>machines to be inserted in the /etc/passwd file there. We do this
>by copying those records to a file in a directory that is NFS exported
>to the clients. A separate crontab program on the client then picks
>up those entries from the NFS disk, merges them into the /etc/passwd
>file, and runs "mkpasswd" to recreated the indexed password file.
"Robert L. McMillin" <rlm_at_syseca-us.com> finds the best to use the NIS.
Much thanks to all of you!
Regards,
Irene.
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Irene A. Shilikhina (e-mail: irene_at_alpha.iae.nsk.su)
DU system manager,
Institute of Automation & Electrometry
Novosibirsk, Russia
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Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 08:09:17 NZDT