Hello,

I have a server with NFS, and NIS as a client. Most machines have NIS so it's ok I just make the group 7 (rwx) and all is good. But some users have laptops on wireless and want to mount this space. They don't use NIS. Can they have write permission even without me have to do 777 (rwxrwxrwx)
Currenly that is the way it is and I hate to do that. Mainly because I'm on a larger network and I only want the ppl in my lab to have access to it, at least write access.

Thank

PB

The users of laptops should set their user accounts to use the GID of the group in question; this will let them write to this space.

Keep in mind that when you export nfs shares like this you can not trust the client, NIS or no. Any remote client that can mount the filesystem may be able to arbitrarily change UID or GIDs and read/write. For example if I have a laptop and connect it to a remote NIS/NFS, if I have local root on the laptop (which I probably do) I can su to any arbitrary user and the remote nfs service doesn't know any better.

WoW, I had always thought that NFS was pretty secure. So how do you export a dir securly?
Umm don't worry too much just kind of interested now. I think I trust most ppl here at the Uni