From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Staubach Subject: Re: userid mapping Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:50:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4341A7B9.5060109@redhat.com> References: <1128375383.26373.4.camel@blackmamba.kapott.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EMYD4-0006lS-An for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:50:58 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1EMYD4-0008Bn-6j for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:50:58 -0700 To: Stefan Palme In-Reply-To: <1128375383.26373.4.camel@blackmamba.kapott.org> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Stefan Palme wrote: >Hello list, > >I guess this is a FAQ, but I have not found any information that >helped me out... I'm running a NFSv3-server and clients with linux >kernel 2.6.X. I have the same user-names on both client and server, >but different user-ids. Is it possible to establish a mapping between >the client's and server's userids? > >A link to an earlier discussion of this topic would be enough... > There has never really been a standard set for mapping the numerical userids and groupids. There have been several implementations which provided such a mapping, but none ever went very far. The usual suggestion is to set up Kerberos and use RPCSEC_GSS to pass the authentication information. Thanx... ps ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs