Hello John, > Hello Yoann. I am working with similar issues at the moment in a biotech company in Denmark. > > First of all what authentication setup are you using? ldap with sssd > If you are using sssd there is a very simple and useful utility called sss_override > You can óverride' the uid which you get from LDAP with the genuine one. That's one of the option, I'm just asking if there are others or simpler solution. > Oops. On reading your email more closely. > Why not just add ceph to your /etc/group file? I tried but there is some side effect. I gave a look to the postinst script in ceph-common and I may find a way to fix this issue : > # Let the admin override these distro-specified defaults. This is NOT > # recommended! > [ -f "/etc/default/ceph" ] && . /etc/default/ceph > > [ -z "$SERVER_HOME" ] && SERVER_HOME=/var/lib/ceph > [ -z "$SERVER_USER" ] && SERVER_USER=ceph > [ -z "$SERVER_NAME" ] && SERVER_NAME="Ceph storage service" > [ -z "$SERVER_GROUP" ] && SERVER_GROUP=ceph > [ -z "$SERVER_UID" ] && SERVER_UID=64045 # alloc by Debian base-passwd maintainer > [ -z "$SERVER_GID" ] && SERVER_GID=$SERVER_UID I can change the SERVER_UID / SERVER_GID and or SERVER_USER I'm gonna try to create a specific ceph user in the ldap and use it for ceph install. Yoann > On 15 May 2018 at 08:58, Yoann Moulin <yoann.moulin@xxxxxxx <mailto:yoann.moulin@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm facing an issue with ceph's UID/GID 65045 on an LDAPized server, I have to install ceph-common to mount a cephfs filesystem but ceph-common > fails because a user with uid 65045 already exist with a group also set at 65045. > > Server under Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS > > > Setting up ceph-common (12.2.5-1xenial) ... > > Adding system user ceph....done > > Setting system user ceph properties..usermod: group 'ceph' does not exist > > dpkg: error processing package ceph-common (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6 > > The user is correctly created but the group not. > > > # grep ceph /etc/passwd > > ceph:x:64045:64045::/home/ceph:/bin/false > > # grep ceph /etc/group > > # > Is there a workaround for that? > > -- > Yoann Moulin > EPFL IC-IT > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com <http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com> > > -- Yoann Moulin EPFL IC-IT _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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