[Lustre-discuss] managing users and ACL

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 29, 2009  11:22 -0500, Shantanu S Pavgi wrote:
> I would like to get some idea on managing users and ACL. How can we
> manage etc passwd and groups file on all clients and MDSs? Can we use
> NSS LDAP? Any suggestions or comments?

Yes, you should be able to use any user management tools.  The Lustre
l_getgroup upcall uses getpwuid() and getgrent() which both will use
LDAP, NIS, or /etc/{passwd,groups}.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.