Best way to share Gnucash data?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 19:41:41 EDT 2015


>> > I use NFS, and exercise caution whenever the "file locked" dialogues pop
>> > up...
>> Is it a good workflow?  Is there a way to lock down NFS read access to
>> a particular non-cli user?  Maybe an NFS GUI authenticator?
>>
>
> AFAIK, there is no user-level authentication in NFS, access controls are
> pretty much only the usual UGO-RWX unix perms - with the added layer of being
> able to allow certain hosts to mount RO or RW (or not at all) and of course,
> map root on a mounting host to a non-priv. user on the server.
>
> Cunning group membership should be your friend here - maybe a group
> specifically for data entry clerks....? Of course, even with an NFS shared
> data file, you can only have one user at a time editing the file.
>
> Possibly, if you have some serious security/trust issues on your LAN, then
> SSHFS?  Been a few years since I looked at that, soYMMV.


Got it, thank you for your help.

- Grant


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