[Gluster-devel] UID mapping feature

[Anand Avati]

Bruce,
  Yes, your idea makes sense. Basically the fixed-id translator came in as a
hack a while back. Another idea would be to make fixed-id lookup PAM and
work like the NFS uidmapper.

thanks,
avati
2007/6/29, Bruce <bruce at webfarm.co.nz>:
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I would like to request a feature which maybe quite easy with the
> existing fixed-id translator.
>
> The theory we have here is that we want to be able to have all our
> servers use glusterfs (or a system like it) to store files, however at
> the moment each server has a unique set of users and some even have
> Control panels users setup other users with which makes migration
> difficult.
>
> Basically the idea is to allow for UID mapping, for example on all
> servers, users are currently set up with user IDs between 100 and 199
> (as an example), however the translator would convert these to 200-299
> for server1, 300-399 for server2, and so on... Hence all the servers
> have unique User IDs on the storage servers and allow for quotas to be
> set and avoid security issues.
>
> The client config file might look something like this:
> volume server1-live
>   type protocol/client
>   option transport-type tcp/client
>   option remote-host 192.168.45.208
>   option remote-subvolume brick
> end-volume
>
> volume server1
>   type features/fixed-id
>   option map-uids 100:199 200:299
>   option map-gids 100:199 200:299
>   subvolumes server1
> end-volume
>
> volume server2-live
>   type protocol/client
>   option transport-type tcp/client
>   option remote-host 192.168.45.208
>   option remote-subvolume brick
>   subvolumes server2
> end-volume
>
> volume server2
>   type features/fixed-id
>   option map-uids 100:199 300:399
>   option map-gids 100:199 300:399
>   subvolumes server2
> end-volume
>
> and of course a unify on top of this (and maybe afr's under the fixed-id
> types)
>
>
> I am hoping that because this should be an easy add with the fixed-id
> stuff that it will make it into a pre-release.
>
> Cheers,
> --
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Anand V. Avati