[Gluster-devel] glusterfs file permissions && ownership

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Wed Dec 12 06:55:43 UTC 2007


Mihai,
 group mode check is really tricky with fused based FS'es since fuse only
passes on the orignial GID of the process and skips the additional GID's.
You can try with the latest codebase where the group check is done only by
the VFS and the server honors the group auth done by client alone.

avati

2007/9/25, Mihai <unixro at gmail.com>:
>
> I have this problem:
> I have two users:
> user1 - group user1
> user2 - group user1,user2
>
> A file on gfs filesystem with ext3
> ls -l /mnt/test
> -rwxr----- 1 root user1 0 Sep 25 17:53 /mnt/test
>
> Logged in with user2 you will get permissions denied when performing a
> cat on /mnt/test
>
> This is how the filesystem is mounted (i couldn't find how to change this.
> )
> glusterfs on /mnt type fuse
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=1048576)
>
>
> glusterfs version 1.3.1
> fuse version 2.7.0.glfs3
> kernel 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 - Centos 5
>
>
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