NFS time based access restrictions

[Darryl Moore]

Ooo excellent. I just shelled in and read the man page. That will do
perfectly. I'll make a cron job for this on the weekend and see how how
it goes.

Thanks,
darryl

Mike Kallies wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Darryl Moore <darryl-90a536wCiRb3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Oh that's easy. My home server hosts videos. Everything I've ripped
>> and/or downloaded in the last decade is there. I want to make sure the
>> kids can't access it between the time they get home and after supper.
>>
>> Perhaps another solution is to change the group ownership of the
>> directory and use cron add/remove the kids from a videoviewing group.
>> I'm using LDAP for authentication already so that wouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> Yes, I didn't really think exporting and unexporting the directory was
>> the best option. I have enough occasional issues with my own laptop and
>> NFS when it sleep and the wakes somewhere not on the network. If
>> Nautilus had an NFS mounted directory open when it went to sleep it
>> causes all sorts of head aches when it resumes.
> 
> I think you can do
> 
>    exportfs -u /path/to/no/longer/export
> 
> and it will stop exporting the path, even though it's in /etc/exports
> 
> Then I think if you do a
> 
>    exportfs -a
> 
> it will reload the /etc/exports and re-export anything which was
> previously unexported.
> 
> I don't have an NFS environment handy to try it out... so I'm not 100%.
> 
> I think this is a better solution than messing with permissions or
> group memberships, because once authenticated, the group memberships
> stay the same until the user logs back in.
> 
> -Mike
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