On Fri, 15 May 2015, Colin Watson wrote: > 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. Excellent! Thanks, Colin! sage -- 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
