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Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies
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Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies

by Gene Curylo, Richard Joltes, Trishali Nayar, Bob Oesterlin, Aniket Patel, Chris Almond
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
11h 3m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 12. Planning a migration from AFS 269
12.3 Migrating AFS users to NFSv4
Migration requires the creation of users and groups within an NFS environment
that match those already present in the AFS cell. The list of AFS users can be
obtained in many ways:
򐂰 The standard password files (/etc/passwd or equivalent) provide the list of
users, names, login shell, and home directories. While adding AFS accounts,
most AFS sites create an entry for the new user in the common shared
pasword file. This file is then distributed to each machine that the user can log
in to. This is a general practice for cells with large number of users because
this centralized ...
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