What about making it configurable in ceph.conf or /etc/sysconfig/ceph? (or via PAM/ldap...) That way individual users could make it a value that they know does not conflict and they will still be able to move OSDs between nodes etc... Paul Hewlett Senior Systems Engineer Velocix, Cambridge Alcatel-Lucent t: +44 1223 435893 ________________________________________ From: ceph-devel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ceph-devel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Tim Serong [tserong@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 27 April 2015 10:56 To: Gaudenz Steinlin; Ken Dreyer; Sage Weil Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx; ceph-maintainers@xxxxxxxx; timm@xxxxxxxx; Owen Synge Subject: Re: [Ceph-maintainers] statically allocated uid/gid for ceph On 04/16/2015 03:14 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi > > Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 04/14/2015 09:21 AM, Sage Weil wrote: >>> I think we still want them to be static across a distro; it's the >>> cross-distro change that will be relatively rare. So a fixed ID from each >>> distro family ought to be okay? >> >> Sounds sane to me. I've filed https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/524 to >> request one from Fedora. > > I have now requested the same for Debian. If the request is granted we > will most likely get the uid/gid 64045. Maybe others could use the same. > It seems that only Debian has a range of reserved ids for this purpose. > I would expect Ubuntu to use the same id, but that's up to them finally. Fedora has rejected the request for a static UID (see https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/524#comment:16), and I haven't made much progress on the SUSE front. I did suggest everyone just do what Debian does ;) but both Fedora and SUSE people pointed out that the 64K range isn't safe to claim, what with not being specifically reserved. I did make one small bit of progress - I've added the ceph user and group to rpmlint on openSUSE Factory (https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/303537) so at least the SUSE build won't bitch if files specified in any of the packages are owned by ceph:ceph. Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong Senior Clustering Engineer SUSE tserong@xxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
