Re: tlug: NFS question

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Rex Walters <rex@example.com> wrote,

> >           Are permissions on an NFS-mounted filesystem going to
> > be as easy to walk around as, thinking idly about the problem
> > here at my desk this evening, I think they will be --- by hacking
> > the /etc/passwd ID number or password on the client machine?  It
> > all seems rather scary somehow.
> 
> You must somehow ensure that all of the user<->uid, group<->gid mappings
> are identical on all of the clients.  This can be accomplished using NIS
> or by rdist (I'd actually recommend the latter).

Is there any reason that you don't like to use NIS?  (Just
curious, because I thought that is the way to go in the
outlined setup.)

Manuel

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