[Lustre-discuss] Groups and Use of newgrp

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 06, 2009  15:27 -0400, Ms. Tammy R. Brown (Contractor) wrote:
> Why do I have to use "newgrp" command to access files and directories 
> owned by groups to which I belong but are not my primary group?
> 
> Is there a way to mount this file system to cure this problem?

Is the MDS configured to have the supplementary groups upcall running?
Does the MDS list the same /etc/groups (or LDAP or whatever) as the
clients?

I believe this is in the manual.

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