Hi.

I am wondering if there's a way to "synchronize" two Linux accounts on two machines. This is the situation:

I have two Linux machines (A and B) connected via network. I use A as my daily machine, and B as a file server. I have /home/priv on B shared out using NFS (with no_root_squash). I mount it as /mnt/priv on A.

Now, using the root account on A, I can create a directory "daihard" on /mnt/priv and chown it to my "daihard" account on A. This way, I (daihard) can do whatever I want to on /mnt/priv/daihard even though the directory is physically on B. The problem is, I have an account "daihard" on B, too, and I have no access to the physical directory (which is /home/priv/daihard on B) as "daihard" on B because the two "daihard" accounts are not associated at all. (FYI, daihard on A has user ID 500, daihard on B has 501.)

I'd like to link the two daihard accounts so I won't have to deal with that headache. Any help would be appreciated.

Dai

Edit the uid. AFAIK NFS (which from your description is what you are using) uses UID's rather than usernames (SMB uses Usernames, kind of, sometimes, IIRC) therefore, if the user has the same UID on the 2 boxes, they *should* in essence be the same user with the same perms. You can also check the NFS man, there are ways to be more loose with your shares, but be very, extremely, extra, super careful when laxing on your security.

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