[Lustre-devel] security: MGS connection
Eric Mei
Eric.Mei at Sun.COM
Thu Jun 5 18:39:12 PDT 2008
Eric Barton wrote:
>> Here is an updated user interface proposal, please review:
>>
>> - MGS can be configured to "only allow RPC with certain level of
>> security from certain node". The default is 'allow any'.
>
> Fine.
>
>> - Each node choose what security flavor to use to connect MGS when
>> mounting target device or client, by mount option "mgssec=flavor". By
>> default 'null' (no protection) is chosen.
>
> Fine.
>
>> - For MDT/OST, the option "mgssec=flavor" could also be written on disk,
>> like other parameters, but will be override if mount option supplied.
>
> How can "mgssec=flavor" apply to MDT/OST connections? What mount option
> will override saved MDT/OST parameters?
Sorry I was not clear enough. I meant connection from MDT or OST to MGS.
The "mgssec=flavor" could be specified as mount parameter, or stored on
disk by mkfs.lustre or tune2fs. If both present, mount option wins.
Anyway it's just some details.
> IMHO we have to make an extremely clear separation between MGS connection
> security (which can only be specified in the mount command) and lustre server
> connection security (which can be stored on the MGS). Anything that blurs the
> distinction will be error prone.
Yes exactly, they're completely separated.
>
>> - If flavor of GSS/Kerberos is specified, some pre-configured machine
>> credential will be used, so no need to supply password or whatsoever.
>
> Fine.
>
>> - The flavor of MGS connection won't change until umount, no matter how
>> rest of connection flavors change at runtime.
>
> Fine.
>
>> - If there's multiple mounts on one node, they must specify the same
>> security flavor. For example, if we do:
>> # mount -t lustre -o mgssec=krb5p /dev/sda1 /mnt/ost1
>> # mount -t lustre -o mgssec=null /dev/sda1 /mnt/ost2
>> then the second mount will fail immediately.
>
> Fine.
--
Eric
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