On Wednesday 27 July 2005 21:50, P Jones wrote: > Hi all; > > I have a Centos 4.1 server and three FC4 workstations in my little > network. I just started using NIS for authentication and NFS for /home > serving. For fun I did a quick Ubuntu install on one machine, and ran > into the wall when it came to differences between groups/GIDs. For > example, Debian has the audio group GID 29, and RH/FC has rpcusers at > 29, and RH/FC doesn't seem to have an audio group, so my Ubuntu > machine user couldn't get access to the sound card unless I granted > access using pam_group on the client. I like the idea of NOT having to > touch the client, just controlling access from the server. *nods* Yeah - good luck with that... We have it even worse - we got HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Linux in different versions everywhere... Most people wonder why when they first log into their Linux box, their user ID shows up as "games" :-D Anyway - the solution is easy... there is none. Either you mod the groups on your client or you find another way to work around your issue... > Another very wierd thing was that before I was using NIS and just > using NFS for /home, even if I set UIDs and usernames and GIDs and > group names to be the same on the Centos server and the Ubuntu > workstation, the Ubuntu machine couldn't get access to some > directories I was attempting to share with NFS. Then I switched on NIS > and they worked. Now, that's one thing that shouldn't happen... There must have been something else set wrong... hosts maybe? Peter.
