On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 07:10:16PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > 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. Sorry for the delay. This seems entirely reasonable; I've allocated uid/gid 64045, which you'll now find in the git tree above. I haven't uploaded base-passwd with this yet, but you can go ahead and make use of this immediately in Debian/Ubuntu without needing to wait for an upload. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]
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