nfs help?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:39 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
>> Access rule are based on uid used on client at the mount time.
>> If you use root on client (for example) to mount an export, tipically
>> you can't access.
> 
> That's never been my experience.  Firstly, normally only the root use
> can mount something.  Secondly, when mounting a Linux file system over
> NFS, the original ownership is maintained, but numerically:  User 500
> remote is treated as user 500 local, so you better make sure that
> usernames and user IDs match on both sides of the connection.
> 
Also, local root is normally mapped to user nobody on the remote
system unless the no_root_squash option in used. "man exports" for
more information.

Mikkel
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