[wellylug] Debian & NFS

[David Antliff]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Geraint Jones wrote:
> 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

Unfortunately my mix of bleeding edge interoperating distributions all 
want to 'look after' /etc/passwd for me in different ways, so it's not 
quite as simple as it sounds. Not impossible either however...

Now if I was using the same version of just one OS everywhere, something 
like this would work perfectly I think. But it's also getting into the 
realm of what NIS etc already do.

I wonder if it's possible to port the extremely useful map_static option 
into the kernel NFS server? Hmmm....  seems a pity it's left out really.

-- 
David.