[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS ownership

[Christopher Cox]

On 08/21/2012 01:29 AM, Ralph Green wrote:
> Howdy,
>    All our users are available over yp.  I have no idea whether I can
> make FreeNAS understand our YP setup, but from both of your responses,
> it appears I should try and find out.  I imagine FreeBSD can handle
> yp, but I also prefer not to butcher the OS setup too much, so I can
> readily update in the future.  I am running version 8.3 beta1 and I
> assume I will want to go to the final 8.3, at least.
>    I might have gone with a standard Linux setup with LVM and software
> RAID, if I had understood zfs better at the start.  But, I don't want
> to switch now.
> Thanks,
> Ralph

With NFSv4 you can map the anonymous user to something... not exactly what you 
want, but depends...