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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by > the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged > and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient > of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the > original and any copy or printout thereof. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070925/8d5873d0/attachment-0005.html>