Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!kevin From: kevin@sun.uucp (Kevin Sheehan) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Symbolic user names and RFS Message-ID: <3255@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 03:56:14 EST Article-I.D.: sun.3255 Posted: Wed Feb 19 03:56:14 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Feb-86 08:12:21 EST References: <674@oliveb.UUCP> <1246@ubc-ean.UUCP> Reply-To: kevin@sun.UUCP (Kevin Sheehan) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 33 Keywords: RFS chown Summary: distibuted UID's In article <1246@ubc-ean.UUCP> sample@ubc-ean.UUCP (Rick Sample) writes: >>Anybody know how this is handled on other networked file systems? regards multiple UID's on multiple systems where symbolic != numeric for their net. >In article <674@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes: >The NFS system running on Sun Microsystems machines has the same problems, >at least in the versions we are running at UBC. We are in the process >of biting the bullet and changing all machines to have the same UID/GID >symbolic -> numeric mapping. I dont think it has the same problem (see below), article goes on to describe the perversion involved :-) If you are running NFS, (and are on a sun...) I would assume that you are (capable of) using yellow pages (this is how you do it on other networked file systems...) which provides for centralization (and slave caching) of a number of just such databases - /etc/hosts /etc/passwd /etc/group, and some other things that have proven handy. Sun has >1000 people spread over knows how many systems, all with unique ID's. I dont know if it (yp) comes with (or near) NFS for you other unfortunates on other machines :-), but I assume with RPC out there it aint real tough. point being, it is easy on the sun (i USE it), and should be next to easy for anyone using NFS/RPC... l & h, kev disclaimer: speak for sun? not even when I am coherent!