Hello,

I've inherited an NFS setup that allows external servers to write to an NFS share on a Centos box. Here is an example line from /etc/exports (there are four entries that only are different based on server IP adress).

/exports/foobar 10.3.14.15/255.255.255.255(rw,insecure,async,all_squash,anonuid=296,anongid=296)

(296="anonid" for both user and group)

Here's the entry from "exportfs -v":
/exports/foobar

10.3.14.15/255.255.255.255(rw,async,wdelay,insecure,root_squash,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=296,anongid =296)

The files and directories on that share are all owned by anonid:anonid.

I've had a request to make a local user (I'll call it "bobsmith") to the NFS server which will have full access to everything under "/exports/foobar/" (in order to perform cronned and manual clean-up tasks on the data).

I admit I am not very versed with NFS, but I'm good with Unix/Linux and usual permission assignment. I am just wary of changing permissions on the local directories and files to make this access possible to "bobsmith" for fear that it will affect or be affected by the changes done to data by remote access.

Any advice on this? Perhaps something simple I am missing in my knowledge?

Thanks!