On 21/02/17 10:39, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:14:47 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> On 21/02/17 07:55, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
>>>  Here is a *very* simple point for you - in order to export a
>>> filesystem you need root access to the machine holding that filesystem,
>>> in order to run an X application on a remote machine displaying on a
>>> local machine all you need is a login on both. I could just as easily
>>> run calibre for a thousand users my way and none of them would even be
>>> able to see anything but their own collection. Your way would require a
>>> thousand exports and anyone would be able to mount any export unless
>>> you restricted the exports to specific clients.
>>>
>>
>> That is apart from the 'need for root to set it up' such ignorant tosh
>> that its not worth responding to.
>
>  Translation every word of it is correct and you won't admit it. You
> are hereby exposed as a trolling idiot.
>
sigh. How do you set up user accounts on your machine - the thousand
user accounts you need to have a 'private caliber' for each one. Using
root privileges.

If you e.g. exported /home as an NFS export, that is the only export you
need.  course your adduser script could be simply modified to add a
discretely exported home dir as well, if you really wanted to do that

Bearing in mind that all users would have userids that would prevent
than from farting round in other peoples home directories.

I supect you are from a MS windows background, and NFS, unix permissions
and unix sysadmin principles are foreign to you  and you feel you need a
GUI for everything.


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