Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> 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 -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
