[CentOS] NFS issue

[Dan]

Thanks for all the suggestions!  As this is for a simple home rollout  ldap
and NIS are a little over the top.  If it were a big picture item I would
definitely choose ldap.

I found in order for this to work I had to cp the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
to the local machine that is connecting to the NFS server share.

Again thanks for all the info!

Dan

On 9/25/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Arremann wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 24 September 2007, Steven Haigh wrote:
> > > Quoting Dan <likuidkewl at gmail.com>:
> > > NFS uses the user ID of the user (UID) for permissions. You
> > will need
> > > to have the correct permissions on each system, and the correct
> > > username associated with the same UID on each machine.
> > >
> > > If you are running multiple systems, I would suggest
> > looking into NIS.
> > > This will allow you to create the accounts in NIS and have them use
> > > the same details on each machine.
> >
> > Good answer but I can't agree on the NIS part.. NIS is plain
> > text over the
> > network and is deprecated for a long time. Sun is talking
> > about dropping
> > support, HP the same and even in the Linux camp there is some
> > talk about
> > taking NIS support out of the standard distributions.
> > Add to that the fact that ldap is becoming easier and easier
> > to set up, you
> > should probably look that way...
>
> NIS doesn't have to contain passwords, you can use Kerberos for
> authentication and still use NIS for user information, if you are
> worried about user names and uids going across in the clear you can
> use NIS+ and TLS.
>
> Improperly secured LDAP can have the same security issues as NIS.
>
> I would use whichever method works best for you, NIS or LDAP. You will
> find that a lot of the LDAP implementations are highly customized to
> each site, so figuring out what to use and what not to use can be a
> challenge, while NIS is pretty much standardized.
>
> I would use Kerberos for passwords though irrespective of the choice
> to use LDAP or NIS.
>
> -Ross
>
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