ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) (10/09/90)
Does anyone know if it's possible to allow a PC-NFS user NFS access
from the PC using more than one group ID? I.e. the equivalent of the
BSD UNIX /etc/group mechanism. The current implementation of pcnfsd
seems to just return the primary GID associated with the user (defined
in /etc/passwd) and that is used. We have a need to authorize a PC-NFS
user to more than one group!
Any hack around this would be much appreciated!
Timo
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Stream Technologies Inc. Fax: +358 0 571 384root@leuze.UUCP (Operator) (10/10/90)
ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes: >Does anyone know if it's possible to allow a PC-NFS user NFS access >from the PC using more than one group ID? I.e. the equivalent of the >BSD UNIX /etc/group mechanism. The current implementation of pcnfsd >seems to just return the primary GID associated with the user (defined >in /etc/passwd) and that is used. We have a need to authorize a PC-NFS >user to more than one group! In PC-NFS 3.0.1 this works well. But the setuid - setgid scheme does NOT work because of bugs in PC-NFS. Regards, Fritz (-: Fritz B. Raab | email: fbraab@leuze-owen.de :-) (-: Leuze electronic, Abt. TDV | old: ..uunet!unido!leuze!fbraab :-) (-: In der Braike 1 | fbraab@leuze.uucp :-) (-: D7311 Owen / Teck W.Germany | voice: +49 7021 573185 fax: 573200 :-)
ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) (10/12/90)
In article <1536@leuze.UUCP> root@leuze.UUCP (Operator) writes: >ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes: > >>Does anyone know if it's possible to allow a PC-NFS user NFS access >>from the PC using more than one group ID? I.e. the equivalent of the >>BSD UNIX /etc/group mechanism. The current implementation of pcnfsd >>seems to just return the primary GID associated with the user (defined >>in /etc/passwd) and that is used. We have a need to authorize a PC-NFS >>user to more than one group! > >In PC-NFS 3.0.1 this works well. >But the setuid - setgid scheme does NOT work because of bugs in PC-NFS. > >Regards, Fritz Huh? In the first sentence you say that it "works well", and in the second that it "does NOT work because of bugs in PC-NFS"... I was kindly informed via mail that by using YP this would actually work. I have only tested it with pcnfsd, so I can't comment on that. However, we would not want to start using YP just in order to get multiple groups working with PC-NFS. Pcnfsd seems such a nice little utility for the task and apart from this has worked flawlessly. It would really be nice to get multiple groups to work with pcnfsd ? Since it works with YP what's the basic difference between YP and pcnfsd in this respect from the PC's point of view why it can't work with pcnfsd too ? What I would like to know is can it be fixed or not ... Thanks, Timo -- ____/ ___ ___/ / Kivihaantie 8 C 25 / / / SF-00310 HELSINKI, Finland ____ / / / Phone: +358 0 573 161, +358 49 424 012 Stream Technologies Inc. Fax: +358 0 571 384