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I'm using nfs to share my files on my arch-linux to a Mac client. I know that the user can be fully trusted and want him to have full control of all the files; the problem is that just by following the wiki page on nfs the Mac user can see the files fine but is really limited in terms of other permissions. To grant him full power I have to 1. put in 'no_root_squash' in the server configuration; 2. set the file permission to something like 755 so everyone can read the file. By now I really miss what I get in sshfs, which is credential authentification builtin.
Is there easy way that I can grant a certain user on a remote host full power without modifying permission attributes on all my files?
Last edited by yulan6248 (2013-04-28 15:49:35)
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In Linux-to-Linux, it's the UID/GID of the connecting user that matters. With Mac OS X being Unix-like, can't you make its user have the same UID as the one owning the files on the server?
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hmm, I'm quite sure that both have the same user id as returned from whoami; but I'm not that sure about the group id though...
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