Gluster users - Oct 2017 - Access from multiple hosts where users have different uid/gid

I have a setup with multiple hosts, each of them are administered
separately. So there are no unified uid/gid for the users.

When mounting a GlusterFS volume, a file owned by user1 on host1 might
become owned by user2 on host2.

I was looking into POSIX ACL or bindfs, but that won't help me much.

What did other people do with this kind of problem?
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Ouch!

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+

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.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Frizz <frizzthecat at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> I have a setup with multiple hosts, each of them are administered
> separately. So there are no unified uid/gid for the users.
>
> When mounting a GlusterFS volume, a file owned by user1 on host1 might
> become owned by user2 on host2.
>
> I was looking into POSIX ACL or bindfs, but that won't help me much.
>
> What did other people do with this kind of problem?
>
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nfsv4 id mapping is based on username not uid so you could use ganesha nfs
to share the files.

On 5 October 2017 at 04:42, Frizz <frizzthecat at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a setup with multiple hosts, each of them are administered
> separately. So there are no unified uid/gid for the users.
>
> When mounting a GlusterFS volume, a file owned by user1 on host1 might
> become owned by user2 on host2.
>
> I was looking into POSIX ACL or bindfs, but that won't help me much.
>
> What did other people do with this kind of problem?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
>
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