<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ouch!<br><br></div>I use a unified UID/GID process. I personally use FreeIPA. It can also be done with just LDAP or (not recommended for security reasons) NIS+<br><br></div>Baring those, a well-disciplined manual process will work by copying passwd, group, shadow and gshadow files around to all systems. Create new users on a specific machine and then use a home-brewed script to push/sync the files to all other machines.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Frizz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frizzthecat@googlemail.com" target="_blank">frizzthecat@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I have a setup with multiple hosts, each of them are administered separately. So there are no unified uid/gid for the users.<br><br></div>When mounting a GlusterFS volume, a file owned by user1 on host1 might become owned by user2 on host2.<br><br></div>I was looking into POSIX ACL or bindfs, but that won't help me much.<br><br></div>What did other people do with this kind of problem?<br></div>
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