On 1/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kihara Muriithi</b> <<a href="mailto:william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br> Just wondering, when a NFS client try to access a shared NFS file<br>system, the server see it either as a user "nobody" or "root"<br>depending on the configuration - options inserted on fstab. Now, to
<br>enforce quotas, you need a better user name, nobody and root isn't<br>going to cut it as its too general. How does the rquota get this<br>information?</blockquote><div><br>Not true. NFS works entirely on UID/GID from client to server. The only account that gets mapped to user "nobody" on the server is root on the client. Every other UID/GID on the client gets mapped to the same UID/GID on the server .
<br><br>This is also why users and UIDs (and groups and GIDs) need to be synchronized for NFS to work. If they are out of sync; then you get all sorts of permission problems.<br><br>pm<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Paul Mora
<br>email: <a href="mailto:paulmora-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">paulmora-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a><br>