NFS mount permissions when user ids don't match

[Bill Moseley]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:05:43PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> >     drwx------ 6 admin users 4096 1969-12-31 16:00 photos
> >
> > Is there a way to mount this so a normal user can have access?
> >
> 
> I could be wrong, but I had always thought that the UID and GID MUST
> match between the client and the server when using NFS. If that is
> true then what you are trying to do isn't possible, unless there is
> some way of changing / faking the ID on the fly.

I think that's true.  It would be a security problem if the client
fake any uid -- which, well, they often can anyways....

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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org