[wellylug] Debian & NFS

Geraint Jones g.jones at french-maid.co.nz
Fri Jul 8 09:22:52 NZST 2005


Or as a simple workaround and one I haven't tested (cop out!) move
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/groups to some other location, export
the new location via NFS. And then mount it on the clients. And make the
entries in /etc/ symlinks to the new mounted location.

As I say I haven't tried it but it seems like a simple soloution to a
simple problem

Geraint Jones

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-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of David Antliff
Sent: Friday, 8 July 2005 9:19 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Debian & NFS


Thank you for your replies Ewen, Geraint and Pete. I hadn't heard about 
iSCSI or enbd - they sound interesting. It is at times like this when I 
wish I had more spare time to play around with these technologies.

It looks like the best solution (if I stay with NFS) is to sync the uids

between hosts (manually since I only have a handful of users) and use
the 
kernel server, since I never had any reliability issues with it.

-- 
David.


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