Best way to share Gnucash data?

Wm wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 9 23:10:12 EDT 2015


Mon, 9 Mar 2015 22:21:33 
<1644925.LiO6XdJkmA at calufrax.nottingham.standbyevents.co.uk>  Maf. King 
<maf at chilwell.net>

>On Mon 9 March 15 15:05:49 you wrote:
>
>
>> >
>> > 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.

Oh how we laughed

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