Re: Some questions about the nfs source package was: RE: NFS server (final?)

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sam, I've tried to build the nfs daemon from the source package. Now I
> followed the instructions you gave in the readme file but they don't
> answer the questions that the BUILD script asks. It would be nice to
> include the answers to those questions in the readme file, or maybe
> even better, avoid invoking BUILD at all an just set your defaults in
> the proper place.
> 
> Btw there was an interesting question I saw there:
> 
> +------------------------------+
> | Access control configuration |
> +------------------------------+
> 
> Unfsd makes sure the exports file is always owned by the same user,
> and is not writable by anyone but that user. I will now ask you for
> the uid and gid of that user. Please enter appropriate user and group
> ids or names.
> 
> Which uid should own /etc/exports? [default 0 (root)]
> 
> What have you answered to that one when configuring ? I guess a good
> defaults would be the Administrator uid and the SYSTEM gid i.e.
> something like 544 (Administrator), 18 (SYSTEM). I dont know though
> if the Administrator uid is a well known one i.e. if it is always 544.

500 = Administrator  (S-1-5-21-x-y-z-500)
544 = Administrators (S-1-5-32-544)

And those numbers are constant.


Max.