On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:40:09 +0100, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of this, > however, is the group id: > > Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id > number for users is different on the server and the clients. It's not > possible to have the directory owned by the same user as on the client as > there are many of those, so group permissions need to control whether the > directory can be written. > > How can I set up this type of directory so that it can be written by the > client machines?
File group ownership is tracked by numeric group ID, so you'll need a user group on the server and clients which has the same numeric ID on each system, and to which all the users belong. Even if this means creating a new user group on each system and manually adding the users to it. In /etc/group, you can define a list of members for each group, even if that group is not each user's primary group users:x:100:steve,phil It may be worth your while investigating NIS as this is typically used alongside NFS to synchronise logins and file access. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
