🚀 go-pugleaf

I am installing a backup system to handle the backup of a four machine
network. To enable backup machine to have access to the remote
filesystems, I am running the whole thing over NFS. To ensure that the
backed up files haveees the same ownership atrributes as the original, I
am also using the ugidd daemon which maps remote uids to local uids. The
dilemma I am now facing is that for some remote uids there is no
corresponding uid on the local machine (i.e. that user simply doesn't have
an account on the local machine). Is there someway to get around this
problem so that original ownerships are retained apart from having to make
sure that there is an entry in the local machines /etc/passwd 's file for
every account on each of the remote machines. This seems to be a bit of an
unreliable fix anyway as it doesn't cover the event of a new user being
added to one of the remote machgines without extra entries being added to
the local machines's passwd's file again everytime this occurs = big
maintenance hassles. Am I going down the wrong avenue by using NFS
anyway?? Please help me - it's 2:45 in the morning and I dont want to lose
too much more sleep over this!!

BTW, I highly recommend the Trainspotting soundtrack as a good hacking
efficiency booster. 

Doug

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