[Gluster-users] gluster mounted volumes not following group permissions

[Gally, Jerry]

But not on the editor's temp file ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov [mailto:Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:39 AM
To: Gally, Jerry
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org; gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] gluster mounted volumes not following group permissions


step 3 manually sets the mode to allow group write.

-greg

gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 04/19/2011 01:35:41 PM:

>
> I presume that would be caused by a user1's umask setting that does
> not set group write permissions on newly created files.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-
> bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Whit Blauvelt
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:30 AM
> To: Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] gluster mounted volumes not following
> group permissions
>
> Greg,
>
> I've just verified your report by doing the same test with 3.1.4 in an
> Ubuntu 10.10 server environment, with the client mount via NFS from
Ubuntu
> 8.04.4. I get exactly the same result. In this case a file is first
written
> by user1, member of "staff" group. Then user2 opens it, adds an edit, and
> tries to save. The backup (using the joe editor) shows up with user2's
> ownership:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1  staff         4 2011-04-19 14:23 dog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user2  staff         4 2011-04-19 14:24 dog~
>
> But the save fails with "Error opening file" from the editor.
>
> Whit
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 01:19:28PM -0500, Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov
wrote:
> >
> > I just had it pointed out to me that we are experiencing situations
where a
> > process that has group write permissions on a file is failing for not
> > actually having write permissions.  I broke it down to the most simple
of
> > tests:
> >
> > userA creates file 'test' in /mnt/gluster/
> > userA sets group ownership to groupA on /mnt/gluster/test
> > userA sets mode to 664 on /mnt/gluster/test
> > userA tries to edit /mnt/gluster/test and succeeds
> >
> > root ensures that userB is in groupA
> > userB tries to edit /mnt/gluster/test and FAILS
> >
> > Anyone else ever seen something like this?
> >
> > We're on 3.1.2 in a RHEL 5 environment.
> >
> > -greg
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