Hi base-passwd maintainers Did you receive the request below? Anything I need to do to get it processed? Any estimate how long it will take until I get a decision? Thanks for your work Gaudenz Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi > > Ceph is currently developing unprivileged user support, and the upstream > developers are asking each of the distros to allocate a static numerical > UID for the "ceph" user and group. > > The reason for the static number is to allow Ceph users to hot-swap hard > drives from one OSD server to another. Currently this practice works > because Ceph writes its files as "uid 0", but when Ceph starts writing > its files as an unprivileged user, it will be nice to allow > administrators to unplug a drive and plug it into another computer and > everything to just work. > > For this I'm requesting an uid and gid from the reserved range > 60000-64999 according to the process outlined in > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/cjwatson/base-passwd.git/tree/README. > > Thanks, > Gaudenz > > _______________________________________________ > Ceph-maintainers mailing list > Ceph-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-maintainers-ceph.com -- 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
