Date: 09 Oct 2004 10:02:37 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: michaela <michaela@maa-net.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS(d) Message-ID: <1097352159.2596.10.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> In-Reply-To: <20041009182723.M39513@maa-net.net> References: <20041009182723.M39513@maa-net.net>
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On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 08:41, michaela wrote: > > > Notice how the OWNERS and GROUPS of certain users (entries) don't belong to > the proper "owners". This causes, "PERMISSION DENIED" errors while trying to > read email in PINE because the mailbox isn't 'owned' by the specific user. > > The /var/mail directory on my usermachine (nfs-client) is the same as on the > emailserver (nfs-server). However, when running NFS the filepermissions > change the /var/mail directory on the userserver (nfs-client). > > I have the option -maproot=root in my /etc/exports file on the emailserver > (nfs-server). This only affects root. For security reasons, by default, root is not allowed to map to root across NFS. Only allow it when you know your LAN is well secured. > > Any idea to what might be causing this, and how I would resolve it??? I was > thinking that even though I have the SAME users on each box, the UIDs are > DIFFERENT on the two machines. Could that be it????? Yes, that is the problem. On my three box network I solve it by creating all accounts on a single box, then using rsync to distribute. There are three password files and the /etc/group file to keep in sync. I can't recall the names of all three password files, I think it's /etc/passwd, /etc/passwd.master, and /etc/passwd.db. You'll find them. -- Gary Dunn knowtree@aloha.com Honolulu
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