Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:49:55 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kevin Buhr <buhr@telus.net>
Cc: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       =?iso-8859-2?Q?S=F8renHansen?= <sh@warma.dk>
Subject: Re: UID/GID mapping system
Message-ID: <20040312144955.GB1236@openzaurus.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> Here's a simple, typical problem:
> 
> I want to connect a Linux laptop to a network with existing NFS/NIS
> infrastructure in place and mount and use, say, an NFS home directory.
> Unfortunately, the UID mappings differ between the existing
> infrastructure and my laptop.  For example, all the files in my NFS
> directory are all owned by uid=45067 gid=102, but my user and default
> group on the laptop are 1000 and 1000 respectively.
> 
> I don't adminsiter the NFS server; I can't ask the administrator to
> set up a server-side mapping system just for my benefit.  But, I *can*
> convince the administrator to add:
> 
> /home/b/u/buhr mymachine(squash_uids=0-45066,45068-65535,squash_gids=0-100)
> 
> to his exports file.

Well... teach nfsd to accept

...squash_uids=...,map_uid=10000:45067,...

				Pavel
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