On 01/15/2015 10:43 PM, Heiko Schr?ter wrote:> Hello,
>
> a) do you need to have 'root' rights to request file attributes
with "getfattr" on a client mounted gluster file system ?
>
> b) was it at any time in history of gluster accesible by non-root users ?
(or was there a bug ?)
>
>
> Reason for asking is that i have some users stating that it worked
"some days" ago for "normal" users but not now anymore.
> The gluster version or setup has not been changed, also no changes to the
XFS brick file systems.
> Version 3.2.5 (yep, i know it is old ...)
> I couldnt find anything about getfattr rights issues in the docs.
# mount localhost:big_dist_rep1 /mnt/
# ls /mnt/
upstream upstream.tgz
# stat /mnt/upstream.tgz
File: `/mnt/upstream.tgz'
Size: 1030758400 Blocks: 2010552 IO Block: 1048576 regular file
Device: 1dh/29d Inode: 13061784644348572606 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2014-08-20 21:08:26.837540779 +0000
Modify: 2014-08-15 04:17:27.000000000 +0000
Change: 2014-08-15 04:37:43.656791859 +0000
# su - fred
$ getfattr -d -e hex -m. /mnt/upstream.tgz
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/upstream.tgz
system.posix_acl_access=0x0200000001000600ffffffff04000400ffffffff080004003000000010000400ffffffff20000400ffffffff
$ logout
# getfattr -d -e hex -m. /mnt/upstream.tgz
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/upstream.tgz
system.posix_acl_access=0x0200000001000600ffffffff04000400ffffffff080004003000000010000400ffffffff20000400ffffffff
What version are you running and what does "stat" say about the file
permissions?
>
>
> Thks
> Heiko
>
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