[Gluster-devel] glusterfs file permissions && ownership

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Fri Dec 14 10:00:13 UTC 2007


Hi,

I'm bumping into the same issue on a samba server where the shares are
mounted through glusterfs, and where those shares are restricted by
group memberships.

Did you mean the latest codebase of fuse or of glusterfs? Will it fix
this limitation?

Matthias

Anand Avati wrote :

> 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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> >
> 
> 
> 


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